Ubuntu PPA (Personal Package Archive)¶

We have set up PPA instances for the following Ubuntu versions:

We only support 64-bit builds. It may be possible to get the client working for Ubuntu 32-bit, by building from source and disabling EVMJIT and maybe other features too. We might accept pull-requests to add such support, but we will not put any of our development time into supporting Ubuntu 32-bit builds.

Installing the “eth” command-line tool¶

WARNING: The ethereum-qt PPA will upgrade your system-wide Qt5 installation, from 5.2 on Trusty and 5.3 on Utopic, to 5.5.

For the latest stable version:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ethereum/ethereum-qt
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ethereum/ethereum
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cpp-ethereum

If you want to use the cutting edge developer version:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ethereum/ethereum-qt
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ethereum/ethereum
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ethereum/ethereum-dev
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cpp-ethereum

Installing the Mix IDE¶

The Mix IDE is shipped on Ubuntu as part of the developer PPA (above). So follow the steps directly above, and then also do:

sudo apt-get install mix-ide
mix-ide