Installation Instructions for Mac

Installing with Homebrew

By far the easiest way to install go-vapory is to use our Homebrew tap. If you don't have Homebrew, install it first.

Then run the following commands to add the tap and install gvap:

brew tap vapory/vapory
brew install vapory

You can install the develop branch by running --devel:

brew install vapory --devel

After installing, run gvap account new to create an account on your node.

You should now be able to run gvap and connect to the network.

Make sure to check the different options and commands with gvap --help

For options and patches, see: https://github.com/vaporyco/homebrew-vapory

Building from source

Building Gvap (command line client)

Clone the repository to a directory of your choosing:

git clone https://github.com/vaporyco/go-vapory

Building gvap requires the Go compiler:

brew install go

Finally, build the gvap program using the following command.

cd go-vapory
make gvap

If you see some errors related to header files of Mac OS system library, install XCode Command Line Tools, and try again.

xcode-select --install

You can now run build/bin/gvap to start your node.