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Builds for Ubuntu?

10 messages BitcoinTalk ArtemZ, imnichol, nimnul, knightmb, Satoshi Nakamoto, David Armstrong, Gavin Andresen July 18, 2010 — January 7, 2011
ArtemZ July 18, 2010 14:27 UTC Source ·

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

imnichol August 2, 2010 15:37 UTC Source ·

Has anyone built a package for the GUI client yet?

nimnul August 3, 2010 17:51 UTC Source ·

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

knightmb August 3, 2010 17:54 UTC Source ·
Quote from: imnichol on August 02, 2010, 6:37:48 AM UTC

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.

imnichol August 3, 2010 18:25 UTC Source ·
Quote from: knightmb on August 03, 2010, 8:54:46 AM UTC

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 August 3, 2010 18:52 UTC Source ·
Quote from: imnichol on August 03, 2010, 9:25:28 AM UTC
Quote from: knightmb on August 03, 2010, 8:54:46 AM UTC

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?

Satoshi Nakamoto August 3, 2010 20:56 UTC Source ·
Quote from: nimnul on August 03, 2010, 8:51:15 AM UTC

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.

imnichol August 4, 2010 16:40 UTC Source ·
Quote from: knightmb on August 03, 2010, 6:52:29 PM UTC

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.

David Armstrong January 5, 2011 12:10 UTC Source ·

Hello,

I setup a PPA today for bitcoin, with packages built for lucid and maverick. Full details are on this other post: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2623.0

Gavin Andresen January 7, 2011 17:23 UTC Source ·

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.