how to go ethereum (geth) on gentoo

newtonian · Last edited by newtonian on Mon Jul 25, 2016 1:13 am; edited 6 times in total

Here is a simple guide to get the latest version of geth going on gentoo:

create your overlay directory

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21624

It looks like that server is HTTPS enabled with a valid certificate and has a Manifest already generated. It would be better to tell users to download via https to avoid problems with walled gardens, bad web proxies, and malicious tampering. Some people may run these commands from insecure wireless connections.

A better command would be wget https://data.gpo.zugaina.org/didactic-duck/net-p2p/go-ethereum/{Manifest,go-ethereum-9999.ebuild,metadata.xml}. This will download all three files in one process, rather than three as you showed, will download over https, and removes the need to generate a Manifest by fetching the one created by the overlay maintainer. Using the maintainer's Manifest protects against corrupted or malicious source tarballs.

newtonian · Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 3:27 am Post subject: update proposal

Very cool and much appreciated.

Have updated as per suggestion. I left out the s in http because it didn't work for me.

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21624

The server certificate was signed by the CA from EFF's Let's Encrypt project. Perhaps your CA bundle does not recognize that as a valid CA. My system accepts it for both Firefox and wget.

newtonian · Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 5:26 am Post subject: server cert

Strange, is working now.

newtonian · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 12:58 pm Post subject: geth now in portage

noticed that geth is now in portage