HOWTO: Mark 0.8.4 supported, add strip command, notice about bitcoin@master

[electrum-server.git] / HOWTO.md

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 ### Step 3. Download Bitcoind stable from git & patch it
 
-In order for the latest versions of Electrum to work properly we will need to use 
-bitcoind 0.8.1 stable to 0.8.3 stable.  
-0.8.3 can be downloaded from github or sourceforge and it needs to be patched with an electrum specific patch.
-A higher version than 0.8.3 i.e. git head is currently unsupported because the patch needs to be ported
-
-    $ 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
+In order for the latest versions of Electrum to work properly we currently recommend bitcoind 0.8.4 stable.  
+0.8.4 can be downloaded from github or sourceforge and it needs to be patched with an electrum specific patch.
+bitcoin@master i.e. git head may not currently work with electrum-server even if the patch applies cleanly.
+
+    $ cd ~/src && wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.4/bitcoin-0.8.4-linux.tar.gz
+    $ tar xfz bitcoin-0.8.4-linux.tar.gz
+    $ cd bitcoin-0.8.4-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
+    $ strip ~/src/bitcoin-0.8.4-linux/src/src/bitcoind
+    $ ln -s ~/src/bitcoin-0.8.4-linux/src/src/bitcoind ~/bin/bitcoind
 
 ### Step 4. Configure and start bitcoind