Topic: how to install the alt-coin qt clients with linux (Read 1948 times)

got it thanks

Sorry to early and not enough caffeine

for ppcoin same process different link http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppcoin/files/0.3.0/ppcoin-0.3.0-linux.tar.gz/download and do the same thing.

also one more thing to your point about now being able to connect to a peer, at first I also wasn't able to connect, but then I turned off my VPN, now it works. Maybe the VPN service won't allow that protocol?

again thanks so much the help. here is what I've done now with more confusion.

I went to the github site, read the readme which told to go to http://primecoin.org/
from there I saw the link to download the client:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/primecoin/files/latest/download?source=files

I downloaded the client, unpacked it and read the readme:


I did went to the dir and ran ./bitocin-qt
now I have a primecoin wallet!

However two things I don't understand...

1. Why can I simply download and run the client, when before we were trying to compile the whole thing, what is the advantage to compiling if there is one?
2. Why the heck is it a primecoin wallet, when from the star I wanted PPcoin wallet!?  Are they somehow the same thing?

https://github.com/primecoin/primecoin is the developers address. Im sure its something simple

just to make sure I understand, you mean from the source here:

git clone https://github.com/primecoin/primecoin.git

The repo could be broken right now. I would create an issue with them and see if they can fix it.

another update:

I did some searching online and found this
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16607003/qmake-could-not-find-a-qt-installation-of

I installed suggested package:
sudo apt-get install qtcreator

and now when I run qmake in the primecoin dir I get this message:

Project MESSAGE: Building with UPNP support
sh: 1: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/qt5/bin/lrelease: not found
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_af_ZA.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_ar.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_bg.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_ca_ES.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_cs.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_da.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_de.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_el_GR.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_en.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_es.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_es_CL.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_et.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_eu_ES.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_fa.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_fa_IR.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_fi.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_fr.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_fr_CA.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_he.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_hr.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_hu.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_it.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_lt.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_nb.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_nl.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_pl.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_pt_BR.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_pt_PT.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_ro_RO.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_ru.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_sk.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_sr.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_sv.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_tr.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_uk.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_zh_CN.qm'
RCC: Error in 'src/qt/bitcoin.qrc': Cannot find file 'locale/bitcoin_zh_TW.qm'

I tried resetting but still the same, below is the content of the src dir, maybe that helps:

addrman.cpp         db.cpp                makefile.unix          rpcwallet.cpp
addrman.h           db.h                  mruset.h               script.cpp
alert.cpp           hash.cpp              netbase.cpp            script.h
alert.h             hash.h                netbase.h              serialize.h
allocators.h        init.cpp              net.cpp                sync.cpp
base58.h            init.h                net.h                  sync.h
bignum.h            json                  noui.cpp               test
bitcoinrpc.cpp      key.cpp               obj                    threadsafety.h
bitcoinrpc.h        key.h                 obj-test               txdb.cpp
bloom.cpp           keystore.cpp          primecoind             txdb.h
bloom.h             keystore.h            prime.cpp              ui_interface.h
checkpoints.cpp     leveldb               prime.h                uint256.h
checkpoints.h       leveldb.cpp           protocol.cpp           util.cpp
checkpointsync.cpp  leveldb.h             protocol.h             util.h
checkpointsync.h    limitedmap.h          qt                     version.cpp
checkqueue.h        main.cpp              rpcblockchain.cpp      version.h
clientversion.h     main.h                rpcdump.cpp            wallet.cpp
compat.h            makefile.linux-mingw  rpcmining.cpp          walletdb.cpp
crypter.cpp         makefile.mingw        rpcnet.cpp             walletdb.h
crypter.h           makefile.osx          rpcrawtransaction.cpp  wallet.h

the makefile one builds the daemon. It might be a longshot but try rebooting. the qt built for me when I did it. Only bad part is I cant find a working peer to connect with to get the block source

so I went to the primecoin directory and ran the "qmake USE_UPNP=-", however again same message as above.

Then I did something that might have been a mistake, I went to the src directory and ran the "make -f makefile.unix", it did it's thing seemingly successfully. 

Ok you need to do the following

cd into the primecoin directory and do a qmake USE_UPNP=-

Then cd src; make -f makefile.unix

its still building on my machine I will tell you how to start it when its done.

Let me get back to the house and I will try it on my Ubuntu machine and see what I get

qmake gives the same message

make give this message:
 *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

try just qmake if that doesn't work just do a make

I installed the package but am still getting the same message.

sudo apt-get install qt4-qmake sorry I missed a package

wow thanks so much! however when I run qmake "USE_UPNP=-" I get the following error: could not find a Qt installation of ''
The other steps worked as expected.

and for ppcoin heres the instructions

git clone https://github.com/primecoin/primecoin.git
cd ./primecoin/src
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libglibmm-2.4-dev libgmp-dev
sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev libdb-dev libdb++-dev libminiupnpc-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev
qmake "USE_UPNP=-"
make


and your good.

I also perfer to build my own. It makes it feel like I am building a bank or something.