Debian 8 - ethereum and eth-dev-tools - installation manual

ethereum_debian8.txt

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# Ethereum and eth-dev-tools: Debian 8
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# rev 9
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# started midsummer 2016-06-21 Andreas Krueger 
#  https://github.com/drandreaskrueger
#  https://twitter.com/drandreaskruger
# please contact me with improvements, thanks.
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# home of this manual:
#  https://gist.github.com/drandreaskrueger/912e704cfc86fd757277a5fd9bd372d4
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# inspired by
#  http://ethereum.stackexchange.com/a/1450/2937
#  http://ethereum.stackexchange.com/a/2220/2937
# and
#  http://www.ethdocs.org/en/latest/ethereum-clients/cpp-ethereum/building-from-source/linux-debian.html#debian-jessie-8-5
# but that took long to compile llvm, so I took this route:
#

# these I had installed earlier, perhaps also necessary:
# sudo apt-get -y install unzip cmake libminiupnpc-dev gcc g++


# cmake 3.5.2:
wget https://cmake.org/files/v3.5/cmake-3.5.2.tar.gz
tar -xf cmake-3.5.2.tar.gz 
cd cmake-3.5.2/
cmake .
make -j 3
sudo make install
cmake --version
source ~/.profile  # or open new terminal
cmake --version


# cryptopp:
mkdir cryptopp && cd cryptopp
wget https://www.cryptopp.com/cryptopp563.zip
unzip -a cryptopp563.zip
make static dynamic cryptest.exe
# testing installation
./cryptest.exe v
./cryptest.exe tv
# install cryptopp
make libcryptopp.a libcryptopp.so cryptest.exe
sudo make install PREFIX=/usr/local


# json-rpc-cpp
sudo apt-get -y install opencl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev
sudo apt-get source libmicrohttpd-dev
sudo apt-get -y install libargtable2-dev libmicrohttpd-dev
git clone git://github.com/cinemast/libjson-rpc-cpp.git
cd libjson-rpc-cpp && mkdir -p build && cd build
cmake ..
make -j 3
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
cd ../..


# Dependencies ...
# missing libjson-rpc-cpp-dev (see above)
# missing libqt5webengine5-dev (see Qt below)
# and llvm-3.5-dev instead of llvm-3.7-dev
# so:
sudo apt-get -y install build-essential git cmake libboost-all-dev libgmp-dev libleveldb-dev libminiupnpc-dev libreadline-dev libncurses5-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libcrypto++-dev libmicrohttpd-dev libjsoncpp-dev libargtable2-dev llvm-3.5-dev libedit-dev mesa-common-dev ocl-icd-libopencl1 opencl-headers libgoogle-perftools-dev qtbase5-dev qt5-default qtdeclarative5-dev libqt5webkit5-dev ocl-icd-dev libv8-dev libz-dev


# get Qt 5.4
# https://www.qt.io/download-open-source/
chmod 700 ./qt-unified-linux-x64-2.0.3-1-online.run 
./qt-unified-linux-x64-2.0.3-1-online.run 
# SKIP the personal questions. 
# version 5.4! Qt 5.4 and Tools
# I installed in  /home/andreas/dev/Qt/
sudo sh -c 'echo "/home/andreas/dev/Qt/5.4/gcc_64/lib/" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/Qt.conf'
sudo ldconfig


# finally, ethereum & friends:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/ethereum/webthree-umbrella
cd webthree-umbrella
mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/home/andreas/dev/Qt/5.4/gcc_64
make -j 3
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
cd ../..


# installed:
eth
mix-ide             # warning: "slated for death" (B.S.). See https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/05/04/c-dev-update-announcing-remix/
alethzero
ethrpctest --help
ethkey --help | less
ethminer --help | less
solc | less
ethvm
lllc --help
rlp --help
bench


# mist wallet
# https://github.com/ethereum/mist/releases

mkdir mist && cd mist
wget https://github.com/ethereum/mist/releases/download/0.7.5/Ethereum-Wallet-linux64-0-7-5.zip
unzip Ethereum-Wallet-linux64-0-7-5.zip 
cd Ethereum-Wallet-linux64-0-7-5/
less README.txt 
./Ethereum-Wallet 


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# donations welcome: [btc] 153vJTNuk1AMch4Lj6r45r5y5hcTKeSCpG
#                    [eth] 0xFC0628D33661661e2438059500722680d6B1DA1D
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😆 I was about to spend time on this ... thanks @brawaga

Wow, I never realized I actually earned some 5$ donation, and probably with this. Thanks, much appreciated.

json-rpc-cpp failed for me in Debian 9.3 Stretch

I solved it by running this...

sudo apt-get install libjsonrpccpp-dev libjsonrpccpp-tools