Getting started with EOS block chain platform

docker is probably the easier way to setup EOS locally. So install Docker, if you do not have one. Pull down the image by runmning the following command

docker pull eosio/eos-dev

Next start your image running this :-

docker run --rm --name eosio -d -p 8888:8888 -p 9876:9876 -v /tmp/work:/work -v /tmp/eosio/data:/mnt/dev/data -v /tmp/eosio/config:/mnt/dev/config eosio/eos-dev  /bin/bash -c "nodeos -e -p eosio --plugin eosio::wallet_api_plugin --plugin eosio::wallet_plugin --plugin eosio::producer_plugin --plugin eosio::history_plugin --plugin eosio::chain_api_plugin --plugin eosio::history_api_plugin --plugin eosio::http_plugin -d /mnt/dev/data --config-dir /mnt/dev/config --http-server-address=0.0.0.0:8888 --access-control-allow-origin=* --contracts-console"

There are some utilities like nodeos, cleos (client eos) and keosd which are needed.

Just run

docker exec -it  /bin/bash

Magically, you get all the tools mentioned above for free.