Topic: Heads up for people planning to use Ubuntu 16.04 (Read 1195 times)
Just checked your edit. I also thought it was really odd to have a Core dev experiencing issues and things went smooth here..
Downloaded Ubuntu and setting up a VM a few minutes after you posted, it's finishing installing now... I'm giving it a shot too to see what's up. Also want to check up on Ubuntu
EDIT: Bitcoin Core 0.12 runs perfectly out of the box on the daily image I've downloaded from Ubuntu's website. I've downloaded the Core tar from bitcoin.org, which I assume is what most people do. Also tried adding the repository, which doesn't work, as expected. Armory however does not install from the deb, which I again assume is the way most people try to install it.
EDIT2: downloaded the offline installer and did dpkg -i *.deb, errored out. Did apt-get install python2.7 and terminal requested me to do apt-get -f install, which I did and in the end it said "Armory installed successfully". So I'm having success with both Core and Armory too... Doesn't seem to be breaking any compatibility so far whatsoever (at least it installs, not sure if it runs fine). Tried with Armory 0.93.3, BTW, can try later with the most recent test versions.
EDIT: Bitcoin Core 0.12 runs perfectly out of the box on the daily image I've downloaded from Ubuntu's website. I've downloaded the Core tar from bitcoin.org, which I assume is what most people do. Also tried adding the repository, which doesn't work, as expected. Armory however does not install from the deb, which I again assume is the way most people try to install it.
EDIT2: downloaded the offline installer and did dpkg -i *.deb, errored out. Did apt-get install python2.7 and terminal requested me to do apt-get -f install, which I did and in the end it said "Armory installed successfully". So I'm having success with both Core and Armory too... Doesn't seem to be breaking any compatibility so far whatsoever (at least it installs, not sure if it runs fine
). Tried with Armory 0.93.3, BTW, can try later with the most recent test versions. 
EDIT: Just gave Beta 1 a spin. Had no problems compiling Armory as currently recommended. Seemed to run fine too. Am trying to figure out what's going on. Maybe Beta 2 (out tomorrow, AFAIK) will shift? I doubt it but who knows.
EDIT 2: Looks like it was a quasi-false alarm. If you're running the full Ubuntu desktop, you should be fine. If you're running a minimal version, a bit of manual intervention may be necessary, although I'd imagine that the packaging system would take care of that automatically when installing Py2 packages like Twisted.
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