Topic: [BitcoinTalk Node Tutorial #1] Running Bitcoin Core on Raspbian Lite (GUI-less) (Read 187 times)

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Good catch. Adding it now.

There's no need to end a line with a semi colon. That's only needed to separate commands on the same line.

In case there is no "Downloads" directory yet:

Links to other tutorials from the series:
[BitcoinTalk Node Tutorial #2] Installing Electrs from source https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcointalk-node-tutorial-2-installing-electrs-from-source-5477339
[BitcoinTalk Node Tutorial #3] Sparrow terminal / infinite Whirlpool mixes https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcointalk-node-tutorial-3-sparrow-terminal-infinite-whirlpool-mixes-5470024
[BitcoinTalk Node Tutorial #4] Connecting BISQ to our node https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcointalk-node-tutorial-4-connecting-bisq-to-our-node-5478756
[BitcoinTalk Node Tutorial #5] Hosting a Monero node on the same machine https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcointalk-node-tutorial-5-hosting-a-monero-node-on-the-same-machine-5480371

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I will create a series of posts (at my own slow pace).
In this series, I will create a custom Bitcoin Node on a GUI-less OS.
I will add various features on this node.

I encourage all of you to share your thoughts and suggestions. In fact, some decisions will be determined by your suggestions.

Hardware / Software used in the series

Computer	Raspberry Pi 4b 8GB RAM
Software	Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64-bit)
Storage	2TB external SSD

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Installing and running Bitcoin Core on Raspbian Lite

Downloading Bitcoin Core

Firstly, we create a directory on the home path, where we will download the necessary packages, let's say we create it inside the Downloads directory:

Now, the latest version is 25.1, so the following command will download the core software and the checksum in our directory:

Let's check whether the checksum is correct:

So, now we must extract the installer from the tarball:

Personally, I install my binaries in /usr/local/bin, so I will use the following command:

We must be done, let's check:

We should receive a prompt that the version is 25.1.

Let's delete the directory we created to download the stuff we needed. It's no longer necessary:

Running Bitcoin Core

Most of the time, when the external storage is connected, it mounts to a specific filesystem location. Let's check where it is:

This will return something like:

From this, we can see that the external drive is mounted on /media/apogio/BTC. This will be our home directory for Bitcoin Core.

Let's create a configuration file and start Bitcoin Core:

This will open up nano and create a file called bitcoin.conf inside the directory /media/apogio/BTC/bitcoincore.
The following lines are ok for the moment:

Now we are ready to go.

Let's run Bitcoin Core and wait until the IBD is finished:

This will take some days. So relax and let it work.

If at any time you wish to stop the daemon, just run:

The IBD is finished, I will stop Bitcoin Core, and I will refresh my bitcoin.conf file as follows: