Setting up an Ethereum development environment

Follow these instructions to obtain the Ethereum development tools and start up an Ethereum private local blockchain environment (primarily used to run/deploy your smart contract to a local blockchain).

Installing Truffle

Open up the command line and run the following command:

npm install -g truffle

Installing Ganache

Open up the command line and install Ganache's command-line interface as follows:

npm install -g ganache-cli

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