First of all, thanks for this.
I was able to add this PPA and install without a problem using Ubuntu 10.10. However the repository has version 0.3.24 of the client. Any plans on updating this to version 0.4.0?
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working fine on Linux Mint 11 
i can confirm that, provided instructions dont work in 11.04
I found an issue today with ubuntu 11.04 using either unity or compiz and the bitcoin GUI not working - the window simply does not appear. There was already a workaround submitted to the wxwidgets repository so I've applied that patch to my ppa.
Please try installing the latest version from https://launchpad.net/~stretch/+archive/bitcoin and see if that works for you.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stretch/bitcoin
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bitcoin
This does not seem to be up...
When I try to install it says:
Is the package gone from the repository? (I succesfully added the PPA prior to installing).
Code:
mahkul@mahkul-Dimension-2400:~$ sudo apt-get install bitcoin Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package bitcoin
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package bitcoin
Is the package gone from the repository? (I succesfully added the PPA prior to installing).
Did you run sudo apt-get update before you tried to install bitcoin?
I just installed it on 10.10 and it seems to be going fine at generating blocks, I don't however have any idea what its doing or how the system works so I'm gonna go do some reading.
Goodluck
Is not necessary, if exist an official debian package, only is necesary send a request for sync, with that, ubuntu will use the debian package.
Very good idea.
Cheers.
Is somebody working on officially pushing bitcoin to central/canonical Ubuntu repos ? This could significantly increase BTC popularity.
(The same with other distros)
(The same with other distros)
Is not necessary, if exist an official debian package, only is necesary send a request for sync, with that, ubuntu will use the debian package.
In other way, i can send my own package to ubuntu revu.
example: bitcoin-cpuminer in ubuntu revu
http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/p/bitcoin-cpuminer
Greetings.
I just got the exact same thing. I'm no Linux guru, but I have a 10.04 Server that I use for really only a few things, like secure browsing while traveling, bacula, etc. It could run bitcoin pretty much 24/7 and I wouldn't notice. I could also run it on my FreeNAS if that were even possible.
Hi,
If you have a small server, you can check my repository to test bitcoind (not gui).
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/not-oficial-bitcoin-apps-debianubuntu-packages-2207
In the next update i build for: lucid, maverick and natty.
Greetings.
Just started Ubuntu on VM and still no bitcoin in repositories after 2 years of the project activity & dynamic development.
Is somebody working on officially pushing bitcoin to central/canonical Ubuntu repos ? This could significantly increase BTC popularity.
(The same with other distros)
Is somebody working on officially pushing bitcoin to central/canonical Ubuntu repos ? This could significantly increase BTC popularity.
(The same with other distros)
When I try to install it says:
Is the package gone from the repository? (I succesfully added the PPA prior to installing).
I just got the exact same thing. I'm no Linux guru, but I have a 10.04 Server that I use for really only a few things, like secure browsing while traveling, bacula, etc. It could run bitcoin pretty much 24/7 and I wouldn't notice. I could also run it on my FreeNAS if that were even possible. Code:
mahkul@mahkul-Dimension-2400:~$ sudo apt-get install bitcoin Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package bitcoin
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package bitcoin
Is the package gone from the repository? (I succesfully added the PPA prior to installing).
When I try to install it says:
Is the package gone from the repository? (I succesfully added the PPA prior to installing).
Code:
mahkul@mahkul-Dimension-2400:~$ sudo apt-get install bitcoin Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package bitcoin
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package bitcoin
Is the package gone from the repository? (I succesfully added the PPA prior to installing).
Works flawless on Ubuntu 10.10 i386 here.
Just installed on Ubuntu 10.10 i386... Install was quick and flawless, but bitcoin only runs for maybe 30 seconds and then disappears 
Not sure what to do there... It's not minimizing to the taskbar, either.
Not sure what to do there... It's not minimizing to the taskbar, either. 
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W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://ppa.launchpad.net/pmcenery/ppa/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_pmcenery_ppa_ubuntu_dists_lucid_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Couldn't find package bitcoin
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Couldn't find package bitcoin
Did you read that?
Oops!!! I feel like an idiot! (But I included the error message so that a smart person like you could read it and copy and paste it for me)
You have added the PPA twice, which doesn't make any sense to apt... Edit the sources.list
sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list
Yup! That's exactly the problem. I just fixed my sources.list, and it installs just fine.
and remove the duplicate entry. If you don't know how to use vim, you can try nano by replacing it:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
Don't worry, I'm a vim user.
To install on Ubuntu:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:stretch/bitcoin
sudo apt-get install bitcoin
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:stretch/bitcoin
sudo apt-get install bitcoin
Did not install on my Ubuntu 10.04 x86-64:
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$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:stretch/bitcoin
[sudo] password for user:
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv CD1034FCBFA4E05DCFAD0C2A8741DDC3A4FF3776
gpg: requesting key A4FF3776 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key A4FF3776: public key "Launchpad PPA for David Armstrong" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
$ sudo apt-get install bitcoin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://ppa.launchpad.net/pmcenery/ppa/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_pmcenery_ppa_ubuntu_dists_lucid_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Couldn't find package bitcoin
[sudo] password for user:
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv CD1034FCBFA4E05DCFAD0C2A8741DDC3A4FF3776
gpg: requesting key A4FF3776 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key A4FF3776: public key "Launchpad PPA for David Armstrong" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
$ sudo apt-get install bitcoin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://ppa.launchpad.net/pmcenery/ppa/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_pmcenery_ppa_ubuntu_dists_lucid_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Couldn't find package bitcoin
It's going to be pretty nice and strengthening to have all debian geeks putting their sleepy boxes to mine
Debian packages were uploaded in december, now awaiting ftpmaster approval:
http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/bitcoin_0.3.19~dfsg-2.html
It is also unofficially available using this APT line:
deb http://debian.jones.dk/ unstable freedombox
...or manually downloaded here:
http://debian.jones.dk/pkg/freedombox/bitcoin/
...or git cloned from here:
git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/bitcoin
http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/bitcoin_0.3.19~dfsg-2.html
It is also unofficially available using this APT line:
deb http://debian.jones.dk/ unstable freedombox
...or manually downloaded here:
http://debian.jones.dk/pkg/freedombox/bitcoin/
...or git cloned from here:
git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/bitcoin
I'm still a PPA novice so my answers might not be 100% right....
It won't automatically fetch the source, but it does force me to upload the source (and an optional patch) and builds packages from those.
In this case I took the tarball from sourceforge. The patch is minimal, just thin wrapper around the bitcoin makefile to keep the debian build system happy.
On https://launchpad.net/~stretch/+archive/bitcoin/+packages you can poke around a bit and you'll see download links for all the various files, and on http://launchpadlibrarian.net/61656269/bitcoin_0.3.19-maverick6_source.changes you'll be able to verify the checksums match to the original tarball.
How hard would it be to setup something similar to produce regular builds of the github integration repository?
Right now, the bitcoin build process is "Satoshi does it." Using Launchpad to create the Linux builds seems like the right way to go.
With your own dedicated machine it would be fairly easy, just a cron job to checkout a snapshot, tar up and submit to launchpad. We can eliminate the patch file by checking those changes back into the main source tree.
I don't know whether or not launchpad could host the cron job for us.
Last dumb question: are there services similar to Launchpad for building Mac/Windows software?
Very nice! Let me ask some dumb questions:
What does PPA stand for?
Does launchpad help solve the 'trusted build' problem-- e.g. does the build process automatically fetch from source code that we can all look at and audit?
I've setup a launchpad PPA to host Ubuntu packages of bitcoin.
What does PPA stand for?
Does launchpad help solve the 'trusted build' problem-- e.g. does the build process automatically fetch from source code that we can all look at and audit?
It won't automatically fetch the source, but it does force me to upload the source (and an optional patch) and builds packages from those.
In this case I took the tarball from sourceforge. The patch is minimal, just thin wrapper around the bitcoin makefile to keep the debian build system happy.
On https://launchpad.net/~stretch/+archive/bitcoin/+packages you can poke around a bit and you'll see download links for all the various files, and on http://launchpadlibrarian.net/61656269/bitcoin_0.3.19-maverick6_source.changes you'll be able to verify the checksums match to the original tarball.
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How hard would it be to setup something similar to produce regular builds of the github integration repository?
Right now, the bitcoin build process is "Satoshi does it." Using Launchpad to create the Linux builds seems like the right way to go.
With your own dedicated machine it would be fairly easy, just a cron job to checkout a snapshot, tar up and submit to launchpad. We can eliminate the patch file by checking those changes back into the main source tree.
I don't know whether or not launchpad could host the cron job for us.
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Last dumb question: are there services similar to Launchpad for building Mac/Windows software?
... but Launchpad won't build (run the compiler on one of their machines) Mac/Windows software, or did I miss that feature when I looked at the website?
Here's my limited knowledge about it, but please someone correct/complete this information. Ubuntu and Debian packages are built by the uploader of the package (who is not always the same person as the package maintainer, btw). I don't know about Ubuntu, but in the case of Debian, the uploader is a trusted DD (Debian Developper), who reviews at least the package-specific diff produced by the package maintainer (if not the whole source), builds the binary, signs the whole thing and uploads it. For all other architectures than those the DD has access to, binaries are automatically built by a daemon at Debian's. It's possible that the daemon also rebuilds the binary on the archs provided by the DD, but I'm not sure of that part.
I suspect Ubuntu packages to work in a similar way – I'm not sure about the specific case of PPAs, though, since they're user-provided.
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