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Topic: Help wanted to test Bitcoin ppa (Read 2226 times)

legendary
Activity: 1072
Merit: 1189
May 15, 2012, 06:45:14 PM
#6
We switched to a new system for automatically determining the client version based on git information, or data stored in source archives. It was tested for both compiles from git and source tarballs, but a refactor shortly afterwards broke the second mode. We only noticed much later, since the normal official builds are done from git.

In any case, fixed for 0.7.0.
legendary
Activity: 924
Merit: 1004
Firstbits: 1pirata
May 15, 2012, 04:48:48 PM
#5
I just updated to 0.6.2 from the ppa and I get no version information in bitcoin-qt

see

https://i.imgur.com/BvRKi.png

and from bitcoind getinfo to confirm the version

Code:
{
    "version" : 60200,
    "protocolversion" : 60001,
    "walletversion" : 40000,

I've seen this too somewhere in the cli, it's not isolated to just 0.6.2

Code:
$ bitcoind -?
Bitcoin version vCLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR.CLIENT_VERSION_MINOR.CLIENT_VERSION_REVISION.CLIENT_VERSION_BUILD-g8ff1873-beta

+1, at first i though it was the translation fault
member
Activity: 92
Merit: 10
May 15, 2012, 04:39:01 PM
#4
I just updated to 0.6.2 from the ppa and I get no version information in bitcoin-qt

see

https://i.imgur.com/BvRKi.png

and from bitcoind getinfo to confirm the version

Code:
{
    "version" : 60200,
    "protocolversion" : 60001,
    "walletversion" : 40000,

I've seen this too somewhere in the cli, it's not isolated to just 0.6.2

Code:
$ bitcoind -?
Bitcoin version vCLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR.CLIENT_VERSION_MINOR.CLIENT_VERSION_REVISION.CLIENT_VERSION_BUILD-g8ff1873-beta
mav
full member
Activity: 169
Merit: 107
May 14, 2012, 06:29:59 PM
#3
I just updated to 0.6.2 from the ppa and I get no version information in bitcoin-qt

see

https://i.imgur.com/BvRKi.png

and from bitcoind getinfo to confirm the version

Code:
{
    "version" : 60200,
    "protocolversion" : 60001,
    "walletversion" : 40000,
full member
Activity: 225
Merit: 101
October 31, 2011, 11:37:51 AM
#2
Installed bitcoind via this PPA and it seems to work just fine after install with my testnet configuration.  I'm on Maverick running as follows:

Code:
~$ uname -a
Linux ******* 2.6.35-30-generic #61-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 11 15:29:15 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
~$
full member
Activity: 227
Merit: 100
October 31, 2011, 11:13:24 AM
#1
New bitcoin ppa is available at https://launchpad.net/%7Ebitcoin/+archive/bitcoin

Currently contains bitcoin-qt and bitcoind at 0.5.0 RC1 but will eventually become the stable channel for bitcoin updates once 0.5.0 is released.

Backup wallet
to install:

Backup wallet
remove stretch's ppa if you have it
Code:
sudo ppa-purge ppa:stretch/bitcoin
add new repository
Code:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
update repo listings and install
Code:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install bitcoin-qt
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