Installation Guide

Prerequisite

To follow up this guide you need to have Golang installed, since we are going to use it to compile the code itself. you can find a tutorial on how to install Golang here: https://golang.org/doc/install.

Additionally, you may want to have git installed (but you can also download directly from Github): https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git.

Compiling

In order to download the code and compile you need the following commands:

$ git clone https://github.com/ledgerwatch/turbo-geth

$ cd turbo-geth

$ make

Running

After this is done, you can run turbo-geth by executing.

$ ./build/bin/tg

what this will do is start a sync process in mainnet.

RPC Daemon

Unlike Go-Ethereum (geth), Turbo-Geth has a separate RPC service called rpcdaemon, this service is used for managin JSON RPC API. In fact, they are not present in turbo-geth with –rpc flag but we have to start a separate service for it. first of all turbo-geth must give access to the rpcdaemon to the database through an API. so we need to run turbo-geth with the flag –private.api.addr which by convention should be set to localhost:9090.

$ ./build/bin/tg --private.api.addr=localhost:9090

then to run the rpcdaemon attached to our node we just run

$ ./build/bin/rpcdaemon

now we can make use of the JSON RPC API at localhost:8545. in order to change the address in which we serve the API we can use the flag –http.api=<something>