Update howto to 0.8.3

[electrum-server.git] / HOWTO.md

diff --git a/HOWTO.md b/HOWTO.md
index 6f3dae3..20b1868 100644 (file)
--- a/HOWTO.md
+++ b/HOWTO.md
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ commands included in this document is not available or does not
 perform the operation described here, you are expected to fix the
 issue so you can continue following this howto.
 
-**Software.** A recent Linux distribution with the following software
+**Software.** A recent Linux 64-bit distribution with the following software
 installed: `python`, `easy_install`, `git`, standard C/C++
 build chain. You will need root access in order to install other software or
 Python libraries. 
@@ -98,11 +98,13 @@ In order for the latest versions of Electrum to work properly we will need to us
 bitcoind 0.8.1 stable or higher. It can be downloaded from github and 
 it needs to be patched with an electrum specific patch.
 
-    $ cd ~/src && wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.1/bitcoin-0.8.1-linux.tar.gz
-    $ tar xfz bitcoin-0.8.1-linux.tar.gz
-    $ cd bitcoin-0.8.1-linux/src
+    $ cd ~/src && wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.3/bitcoin-0.8.3-linux.tar.gz
+    $ tar xfz bitcoin-0.8.3-linux.tar.gz
+    $ cd bitcoin-0.8.3-linux/src
     $ patch -p1 < ~/src/electrum/server/patch/patch
+    $ cd src
     $ make USE_UPNP= -f makefile.unix
+    $ ln -s ~/src/bitcoin-0.8.3-linux/src/src/bitcoind ~/bin/bitcoind
 
 ### Step 4. Configure and start bitcoind