so do I just type: bitcoin-qt in the terminal?
Depending on how and where it's installed, that should probably work. But you'll need to kill bitcoind first.This probably works:
Code:
killall bitcoind
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This probably works:
is there some kind of progress bar I can watch instead?
On folder which store blockchain files, open debug.log file. It should contain lines which says CURRENT_DATE_TIME UpdateTip: ... progress=0.XXXXX ... where value of progress should be between 0.0 and 1.0 which represent current sync progress.
so do I just type: bitcoin-qt in the terminal?
You're running bitcoind, which is the daemon. You're probably looking for bitcoin-qt, which has a GUI. You're going to download another 600 GB. If you're going to add 8 GB RAM anyway, I can only recommend to do that first. It'll make verifying all blocks a lot smoother.
I have a strong feeling that I`m way in over my head here!
I revived an old laptop whose battery had died, so I bought a new one and a 2Tb SSD drive for it, it has 8Gb ram and I`m hoping to get another 8 for it soon.
After a lot of messing about I managed to instal Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on it, and update/upgrade after following a few Youtbe guides.
I then headed straight over to Bitcoin.Org to put my node software onto it... well the first one I tried didn`t work, it was TAR GZ something or other, and it did go into my downloads area but clicking on it just kept opening other boxes like russian dolls and non of them were an executable file, so I gave up on that and tried Linux Snap software and that DID install something onto my laptop! and I was Soooo pleased to see the Bitcoin logo on there!
When I clicked that it asked about running a full/pruned node and I want a full node, so I did that and it just closed the box?
I tried clicking it again but it said something about it already running? but I can`t see anything?
I went into what looks like the linux equiv of Task Manager and I can see a process called Bitcoind running in there, so it`s definitely doing Something!
Currently the Bitcoind process in the "Disk write total" section says it`s a 52.6Gb file and it`s slowly increasing! so I`m going to assume that`s the block history file? because I can`t imagine anything else using up so much space.
is there some kind of progress bar I can watch instead? otherwise how will I know when it`s fully sync`d?
Is there some sort of GUI I can use or does it all have to be a load of typing in terminal and text based stuff I don`t understand?
Have I even done it right so far? I`m really flying blind here because this is my first exposure to Linux and I`m just guessing my way through it.
Most youtube vids assume you already know the basics and I don`t, so they`re all way over my head!
and I`m at 58.8Gb downloaded now
I revived an old laptop whose battery had died, so I bought a new one and a 2Tb SSD drive for it, it has 8Gb ram and I`m hoping to get another 8 for it soon.
After a lot of messing about I managed to instal Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on it, and update/upgrade after following a few Youtbe guides.
I then headed straight over to Bitcoin.Org to put my node software onto it... well the first one I tried didn`t work, it was TAR GZ something or other, and it did go into my downloads area but clicking on it just kept opening other boxes like russian dolls and non of them were an executable file, so I gave up on that and tried Linux Snap software and that DID install something onto my laptop! and I was Soooo pleased to see the Bitcoin logo on there!
When I clicked that it asked about running a full/pruned node and I want a full node, so I did that and it just closed the box?
I tried clicking it again but it said something about it already running? but I can`t see anything?
I went into what looks like the linux equiv of Task Manager and I can see a process called Bitcoind running in there, so it`s definitely doing Something!
Currently the Bitcoind process in the "Disk write total" section says it`s a 52.6Gb file and it`s slowly increasing! so I`m going to assume that`s the block history file? because I can`t imagine anything else using up so much space.
is there some kind of progress bar I can watch instead? otherwise how will I know when it`s fully sync`d?
Is there some sort of GUI I can use or does it all have to be a load of typing in terminal and text based stuff I don`t understand?
Have I even done it right so far? I`m really flying blind here because this is my first exposure to Linux and I`m just guessing my way through it.
Most youtube vids assume you already know the basics and I don`t, so they`re all way over my head!
and I`m at 58.8Gb downloaded now
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