From 58a7180f46c1867af049d363cafebe3726e324eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eagle[TM] Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 01:38:07 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] HOWTO: Mark 0.8.4 supported, add strip command, notice about bitcoin@master --- HOWTO.md | 18 +++++++++--------- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/HOWTO.md b/HOWTO.md index e4f5b1f..a847427 100644 --- a/HOWTO.md +++ b/HOWTO.md @@ -94,18 +94,18 @@ our ~/bin directory: ### 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 -- 1.7.1