Mist Browser

The Mist browser is the tool of choice to browse and use Ðapps. If you want to install the app from a pre-built version on the release page, you can simply run the executable after download. For updating, simply download the new version and copy it over the old one (keep a backup of the old one if you want to be sure). In order to install from .zip files, please install libgconf2-4 first. Once a Mist version is released the Meteor frontend part is bundled using the meteor-build-client npm package to create pure static files. For development we start the interface with a Meteor server for auto-reload etc. Client binaries (e.g. geth) specified in clientBinaries.json will be checked during every startup and downloaded if out-of-date, binaries are stored in the config folder. You can pass command-line options directly to Geth by prefixing them with --node- in the command-line invocation.