November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
13h 21m
English
Geth is the most popular Ethereum client, and can be used with any of the public test networks. We will be using the Rinkeby Proof-of-Authority test network for our deployment.
First, ensure you have Geth installed on your system. If Geth isn't already installed, official download instructions can be found at https://geth.ethereum.org/downloads/.
Once Geth is installed, it's important to initialize and run it with the correct parameters. The easiest way to do this is to follow the instructions at https://www.rinkeby.io/#geth, specifically those for running a full node.
After running the appropriate Geth init command found in the instructions, to sync the chain data, the following command should be run:
geth --networkid=4 ...
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