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Quote from: ArtemZ on July 18, 2010, 10:27:18 AM

Hi,
Since Ubuntu is most popular desktop linux distro why there are no repository or even builds of bitcoin client? I think someone should start to create something like repo with bitcoin's builds, better ppa on launchpad. It will be so cool to have native payment system in ubuntu, maybe one day bitcoin will be included in the main repository

the main problem is bitcoin seems to require non-standard conflicting version of wxwidgets.

Gavin Andresen

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Great! I'd like to see this good work make it back into mainline bitcoin; please talk with the other improve-the-build-process efforts and submit some patches.

David Armstrong

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Hello,

I setup a PPA today for bitcoin, with packages built for lucid and maverick. Full details are on this other post:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ubuntu-bitcoin-packages-2623

imnichol

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Quote from: knightmb on August 03, 2010, 02:52:29 PM

Oh you mean official binaries in package form hosted by the Ubuntu folks?

Not necessarily hosted by launchpad or anything, just packages available from a mirror somewhere.

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Quote from: nimnul on August 03, 2010, 01:51:15 PM

Is satoshi noWx patch in 0.3.7 already? Before that bitcoind required wx, and I never seen Satoshi announcing that it's in trunk

Yes, 0.3.7 has it. It was in rev 112.

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Quote from: imnichol on August 03, 2010, 02:25:28 PM

Quote from: knightmb on August 03, 2010, 01:54:46 PM

I've built the client and daemon for Ubuntu 9.04 (should work in later versions ?)
Not a package per say, but you can just download the current Linux release and just overwrite the binaries. Not perfect, but it will get a working version for you that way.

Yeah I've built the binaries before, I want to be able to upgrade via the update manager rather than manually downloading the binaries.

Oh you mean official binaries in package form hosted by the Ubuntu folks?

imnichol

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Quote from: knightmb on August 03, 2010, 01:54:46 PM

I've built the client and daemon for Ubuntu 9.04 (should work in later versions ?)
Not a package per say, but you can just download the current Linux release and just overwrite the binaries. Not perfect, but it will get a working version for you that way.

Yeah I've built the binaries before, I want to be able to upgrade via the update manager rather than manually downloading the binaries.

knightmb

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Quote from: imnichol on August 02, 2010, 11:37:48 AM

Has anyone built a package for the GUI client yet?

I've built the client and daemon for Ubuntu 9.04 (should work in later versions ?)
Not a package per say, but you can just download the current Linux release and just overwrite the binaries. Not perfect, but it will get a working version for you that way.

nimnul

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Is satoshi noWx patch in 0.3.7 already? Before that bitcoind required wx, and I never seen Satoshi announcing that it's in trunk

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Quote from: imnichol on August 02, 2010, 11:37:48 AM

Has anyone built a package for the GUI client yet?

GUI builds are quite a bit harder since they also require WX to be built along with it.

I'll try to create a statically linked version on OBS soon.

imnichol

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Has anyone built a package for the GUI client yet?

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Quote from: Cdecker on July 30, 2010, 10:22:16 AM

Quote from: melvster on July 22, 2010, 12:34:29 PM

Quote from: imnichol on July 22, 2010, 12:03:24 PM

Well, I couldn't find any good directions on how to package a .deb for a ppa, but I haven't given up hope yet. Anyone who can throw some documentation my way would be awesome. Right now I'm trying a different strategy.

I run ubuntu on my desktop maybe I can help ...

EDIT: first time I've tried it, but I made a launch pad project here: https://launchpad.net/bitcoin hopefully we can work out how to do ppa etc.

Would you add me to the maintainers of the project on launchpad? My username is cdecker and I have ready built deb packages from my efforts on openSuse Build Service http://bit.ly/bUqiRY

Sure!

I've created a team

Added you ..

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Quote from: melvster on July 22, 2010, 12:34:29 PM

Quote from: imnichol on July 22, 2010, 12:03:24 PM

Well, I couldn't find any good directions on how to package a .deb for a ppa, but I haven't given up hope yet. Anyone who can throw some documentation my way would be awesome. Right now I'm trying a different strategy.

I run ubuntu on my desktop maybe I can help ...

EDIT: first time I've tried it, but I made a launch pad project here: https://launchpad.net/bitcoin hopefully we can work out how to do ppa etc.

Would you add me to the maintainers of the project on launchpad? My username is cdecker and I have ready built deb packages from my efforts on openSuse Build Service http://bit.ly/bUqiRY

imnichol

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Quote from: eugene2k on July 25, 2010, 03:36:05 AM

If I'm not mistaken, Ubuntu's PPA requires you to have your project uploaded in source form. Launchpad then compiles it and offers debs.

So do I have to do anything special to the source? I know that the standard method of building a .deb doesn't work, 'make -f makefile.unix' just spits out a binary. No chance to checkinstall or anything

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Quote from: imnichol on July 22, 2010, 12:03:24 PM

Well, I couldn't find any good directions on how to package a .deb for a ppa, but I haven't given up hope yet. Anyone who can throw some documentation my way would be awesome. Right now I'm trying a different strategy.

If I'm not mistaken, Ubuntu's PPA requires you to have your project uploaded in source form. Launchpad then compiles it and offers debs.

imnichol

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I've got bitcoin compiled for AMD64 linux. yay.
So now I've just got to figure out how to hack it so that I can package it as a deb.

imnichol

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Quote from: melvster on July 22, 2010, 12:34:29 PM

I run ubuntu on my desktop maybe I can help ...

EDIT: first time I've tried it, but I made a launch pad project here: https://launchpad.net/bitcoin hopefully we can work out how to do ppa etc.

I've got a launchpad ppa set up too, but launchpad is a huge PITA from what I've tried.

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Quote from: imnichol on July 22, 2010, 12:03:24 PM

Well, I couldn't find any good directions on how to package a .deb for a ppa, but I haven't given up hope yet. Anyone who can throw some documentation my way would be awesome. Right now I'm trying a different strategy.

I run ubuntu on my desktop maybe I can help ...

EDIT: first time I've tried it, but I made a launch pad project here: https://launchpad.net/bitcoin hopefully we can work out how to do ppa etc.

imnichol

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Well, I couldn't find any good directions on how to package a .deb for a ppa, but I haven't given up hope yet. Anyone who can throw some documentation my way would be awesome. Right now I'm trying a different strategy.

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keep us informed, i'm on ubuntu 10.04 64bit and i'd like to see a ubuntu specific build of bitcoin and bitcoind.

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