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I followed these instructions to install a geth node on an ubuntu vps. If I try a command via ssh it says geth: command not found. Do I need to be in a specific folder to run the commands?

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If you've built from source, which I think your description (and link) implies, then your built binary won't have been automagically copied to the /usr/bin/ directory. In this case you'll need to run the geth command from the location specified in the instructions, which is /build/bin/geth.

If you want to be able to run geth from anywhere, you'll either need to:

  • Add the /build/bin/ directory to your $PATH,
  • Manually copy the built geth binary to /usr/bin/ (which is already part of your $PATH).

Alternatively you could install from the PPA and have all this done for you automatically. (This is what I would do, unless I wanted the very latest code.)

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  • I still get the same error if I run it in the go-ethereum directory – Joe Jun 28 '17 at 13:14
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    Okay, I hadn't read the wiki properly :-) The very final instruction says you can run it from build/bin/geth, which is where the make step must put it instead of leaving it in go-ethereum. – Richard Horrocks Jun 28 '17 at 13:18
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    build/bin/geth is an executable file. running it starts the node. – Joe Jun 28 '17 at 13:37
  • Great, glad it worked :-) (That's what you were after, right?) – Richard Horrocks Jun 28 '17 at 13:40
  • I wanted to use the geth command line options so that I could run as a light client – Joe Jun 28 '17 at 13:46

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