Tutorial on how to setup "nheqminer" Zcash miner on Ubuntu 16 LTS with CUDA GPU

setup_nheqminer_cuda_tromp_on_ubuntu.md

Setup "nheqminer" Zcash miner on Ubuntu 16 LTS with Nvidia GPU

The goal of this article is to help the user setup Zcash miner utilizing their Nvidia graphics card.

Useful sites:

• https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads
• http://usefree.com.ua/mining-zcash-ubuntu-cpu-gpu-zcash-flypool-org/
• https://github.com/nicehash/nheqminer/tree/Linux
• https://steemit.com/blockchain/@usefree/mining-zcash-ubuntu-cpu-gpu-zcash-flypool-org
• https://zcash.flypool.org/

Assumpations:

• You have a Nvidia graphic card. These instructions have been verified to work on Nvidia GTX 550 Ti Graphics card.

Instructions

Install depedencies

sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install cmake build-essential libboost-all-dev

Install GPU dependecy:

Follow instructions: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads

sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu1604_8.0.61-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cuda
sudo apt-get install cuda-toolkit-8-0

Install nheqminer

Would like to know more? https://github.com/nicehash/nheqminer/tree/Linux#linux-ubuntu-1404--1604-build-cuda_tromp

Here is a summary

git clone -b Linux https://github.com/nicehash/nheqminer.git
cd nheqminer/Linux_cmake/nheqminer_cuda_tromp && cmake . && make -j $(nproc)
cd nheqminer_cuda_tromp

Running:

Mining Zcash and automatically converting it into bitcoins

./nheqminer_cuda_tromp -l equihash.eu.nicehash.com:3357 -u 1NdWWNyHJJd5oFhtzAFtApNaHjSuAbGmXZ.worker1 -t 0 -cd 0

Mining Zcash

./nheqminer_cuda_tromp -l equihash.eu.nicehash.com:3357 -u t1aKyzfQLUpCgYgKWutvFVVC2zhL3GBaKmy.worker1 -t 0 -cd 0

Hello,
cd nheqminer/Linux_cmake/nheqminer_cuda_tromp && cmake . && make -j $(nproc) returns an error "No such file or directory".