Older versions of Electrum used to require a patched version of bitcoind.
This is not the case anymore since bitcoind supports the 'txindex' option.
-We currently recommend bitcoind 0.8.5 stable.
+We currently recommend bitcoind 0.8.6 stable.
If your package manager does not supply a recent bitcoind and prefer to compile
here are some pointers for Ubuntu:
- $ cd ~/src && wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.5/bitcoin-0.8.5-linux.tar.gz
- $ tar xfz bitcoin-0.8.5-linux.tar.gz
- $ cd bitcoin-0.8.5-linux/src/src
+ $ cd ~/src && wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.6/bitcoin-0.8.6-linux.tar.gz
+ $ tar xfz bitcoin-0.8.6-linux.tar.gz
+ $ cd bitcoin-0.8.6-linux/src/src
$ sudo apt-get install make g++ python-leveldb libboost-all-dev libssl-dev libdb++-dev
$ make USE_UPNP= -f makefile.unix
- $ strip ~/src/bitcoin-0.8.5-linux/src/src/bitcoind
- $ ln -s ~/src/bitcoin-0.8.5-linux/src/src/bitcoind ~/bin/bitcoind
+ $ strip ~/src/bitcoin-0.8.6-linux/src/src/bitcoind
+ $ ln -s ~/src/bitcoin-0.8.6-linux/src/src/bitcoind ~/bin/bitcoind
### Step 4. Configure and start bitcoind