bitcoin no longer in ubuntu as of 14.04? - page 2.

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Quote from: themusicgod1 on April 17, 2014, 01:45:42 AM

Quote from: bitpop on April 08, 2014, 02:55:00 AM

I've always used the ppa

I'm sure many people do, that's not the point. Ubuntu is one of the largest GNU/Linux distros around, and their average user had access to bitcoin as part of their operating system. It would be as if windows 7 had came with an option to install bitcoin via an optional windows update or something. Today is release day for 14.04, perhaps it's worth reflecting on what we just lost.

Exactly, why would they include Bitcoin? I wouldn't expect anyone to. Not some anonymous os maintainer. I'd rather get it from the ppa and know the guy doing it. You must trust their signing keys.

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Really Ubuntu comes with Bitcoin QT that's news to me kind of neat though

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Quote from: bitpop on April 08, 2014, 02:55:00 AM

I've always used the ppa

I'm sure many people do, that's not the point. Ubuntu is one of the largest GNU/Linux distros around, and their average user had access to bitcoin as part of their operating system. It would be as if windows 7 had came with an option to install bitcoin via an optional windows update or something. Today is release day for 14.04, perhaps it's worth reflecting on what we just lost.

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I've always used the ppa

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Quote from: chek2fire on April 07, 2014, 07:05:29 PM

We have and ppa repositories with official release of bitcoin-qt. I think is better to add this and for the updates

We?
Why is this better? Bitcoin is no longer an apt-get away from the average Ubuntu user who has no need to trust ppas, nor do we get support help and triage from canonical.

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We have and ppa repositories with official release of bitcoin-qt. I think is better to add this and for the updates

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Quote from: dex1 on April 07, 2014, 09:38:39 AM

As you can read here it is only final beta release with final release expected on 17/04/2014.
Just give them some more time and I am sure they will include it their packages.

Yeah, and as part of that they froze which packages are included a few days ago, meaning bitcoin-qt did not make the cut somehow.

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Quote from: Vindihaaret on April 07, 2014, 06:01:25 AM

Not shure about ubuntu, but perhaps you need to add a 3rd party repository ?

This was not the case -- bitcoin-qt had been part of ubuntu for the past 2 major releases. It's possible this has changed but I haven't heard anything of it.

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It's a lot of work for one guy https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/bitcoin

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As you can read here it is only final beta release with final release expected on 17/04/2014.
Just give them some more time and I am sure they will include it their packages.

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Not shure about ubuntu, but perhaps you need to add a 3rd party repository ?

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What's up with that?

http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/bitcoin-qt

I don't see anything for trusty

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