From d9a0afacc92c535eb8436857635eea196d7758ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eagle[TM] Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 19:16:55 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] HOWTO: re-add compile example for bitcoind --- HOWTO.md | 11 +++++++++++ 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/HOWTO.md b/HOWTO.md index 2a83757..51f30c7 100644 --- a/HOWTO.md +++ b/HOWTO.md @@ -103,6 +103,17 @@ 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. +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 + $ 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 + ### Step 4. Configure and start bitcoind In order to allow Electrum to "talk" to `bitcoind`, we need to set up a RPC -- 1.7.1