Step 4: Installing execution client
🛸 Install execution client (ETH1 node)
Pick an execution client
Your choice of either Geth, Besu, Nethermind, or Erigon.
Reminder: Ensure you are logged in and execute all steps in this guide as non-root user, ethereum ,
created during Step 2: Configuring Node.
Review the latest release notes at https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases
🧬Install from the repository
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ethereum/ethereum
sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install ethereum -y
⚙️ Setup and configure systemd
Run the following to create a unit file to define your eth1.service
configuration.
Simply copy/paste the following.
cat > $HOME/eth1.service << EOF
[Unit]
Description=Geth Execution Layer Client service
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target
Documentation=https://www.coincashew.com
[Service]
Type=simple
User=ethereum
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
TimeoutSec=690
ExecStart=/usr/bin/geth \
--goerli \
--metrics \
--pprof \
--authrpc.jwtsecret=/secrets/jwtsecret
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
Move the unit file to /etc/systemd/system
and give it permissions.
sudo mv $HOME/eth1.service /etc/systemd/system/eth1.service
sudo chmod 644 /etc/systemd/system/eth1.service
Run the following to enable auto-start at boot time.
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable eth1
⛓️Start geth
sudo systemctl start eth1
🛠️ Helpful execution client commands
journalctl -fu eth1
Now that your execution client is configured and started, proceed to the next step on setting up your consensus client.
If you're checking the logs and see any warnings or errors, please be patient as these will normally resolve once both your execution and consensus clients are fully synced to the Ethereum network.
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