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Compile_Bitcoin_on_Ubuntu_14_04
Assuming the username of the Ubuntu user is "theusername".
Preparation
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```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev autoconf pkg-config libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
sudo apt-get install libqt5gui5 libqt5core5 libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler
sudo apt-get install libqrencode-dev
sudo apt-get install libminiupnpc-dev
```
Download bitcoin source code
----------------------------
```
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git
```
Download and compile Berkley DB 4.8
-----------------------------------
```
cd ~
mkdir bitcoin/db4/
wget 'http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz'
tar -xzvf db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz
cd db-4.8.30.NC/build_unix/
../dist/configure --enable-cxx --disable-shared --with-pic --prefix=/home/theusername/bitcoin/db4/
make install
```
Compile Bitcoin with Berkley DB 4.8
-----------------------------------
```
cd ~/bitcoin/
./autogen.sh
./configure LDFLAGS="-L/home/theusername/bitcoin/db4/lib/" CPPFLAGS="-I/home/theusername/bitcoin/db4/include/"
make -s -j5
```
Run Bitcoin Daemon/QT/Client
----------------------------
```
./src/bitcoind
./src/bitcoin-qt
./src/bitcoin-cli
```
Please share your experience and provide constructive feedback!
Thanks,
--- Kosta
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kostaz commented Aug 20, 2014

Updated: added "protobuf-compiler" as dependency.

@nivertech
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nivertech commented Aug 25, 2014

I was able to compile with Qt on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
https://gist.github.com/nivertech/778347fa47aee459ed9c

How to disable downloading of blockchain?
Is this possible to download dump of the blockchain and put it on external USB drive?

@asubbarao-zz
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asubbarao-zz commented Feb 19, 2017 •
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I am fine up to line 49 "./src/bitcoind" but then I get the error message as following:


alok@as-Thinkpad:~/bitcoin$ ./src/bitcoind
: Incorrect or no genesis block found. Wrong datadir for network?

Any help please?

@djp3
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djp3 commented Mar 13, 2017

I needed to install libevent-dev and libqt5core5a
Thanks for this guide!

@anhgien
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anhgien commented Apr 16, 2017

@asubbarao: you just remove ~/.bitcoin directory with cmd "rm -rf ~./bitcoin"

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rusticbison commented Apr 19, 2017 •
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I needed to install libevent-dev and libqt5core5a

I am running Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS and also needed to install libqt5core5a.

Additionally, I had compiler issues when I attempted:
make -s -j5

This solution worked for me:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=304389.0

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@g8d3
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g8d3 commented Apr 24, 2017

Here is what I did for ubuntu 16:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev

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earonesty commented Jul 24, 2017

Worked great, for ubuntu 16, had to add libevent-dev, and libqt5core5a instead of libqt5core5.

@TTcoinDeveloper
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TTcoinDeveloper commented Sep 18, 2017

thanks

@Nurdur
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Nurdur commented Sep 21, 2017 •
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After entering line 33: (../dist/configure --enable-cxx --disable-shared --with-pic --prefix=/home/theusername/bitcoin/db4/) I get:

configure: error: libdb_cxx headers missing, Bitcoin Core requires this library for wallet functionality

Edit: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS

@JReganE
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JReganE commented Nov 16, 2017

Thanks for this.

@bitcoineconomics2018
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bitcoineconomics2018 commented Dec 1, 2017

I'm stuck at line 42, Compile Bitcoin with Berkley DB 4.8, I get: -bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

Any help???

@caikehe
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caikehe commented Jan 24, 2018 •
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solution works for me on Ubuntu 16.04:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev

@wuqichun
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wuqichun commented Jan 28, 2018

i've been trying

@benzntech
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benzntech commented Feb 10, 2018 •
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However the following packages replace it:
libqt5core5a

E: Package 'libqt5core5' has no installation candidate

Update this to document

@xiaonan778
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xiaonan778 commented Feb 11, 2018

@caikehe It works! thx

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ghost commented Feb 12, 2018

in Ubuntu 16 you also need to run

sudo apt-get install libevent-dev

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smartmanjp commented Mar 6, 2018

Hello I was installing this to learn and i get stack on make -s -j5 I get this terry@rootminingpool:/bitcoin$ make -s -j5
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
terry@rootminingpool:/bitcoin$
Any help

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smartmanjp commented Mar 6, 2018

and inside the fold i have
terry@rootminingpool:/bitcoin$ ll
total 1420
drwxrwxr-x 14 terry terry 4096 Mar 6 16:59 ./
drwxr-xr-x 23 terry terry 4096 Mar 6 16:43 ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 terry terry 56106 Mar 6 16:59 aclocal.m4
-rwxrwxr-x 1 terry terry 527 Mar 6 16:42 autogen.sh*
drwxr-xr-x 2 terry terry 4096 Mar 6 16:59 autom4te.cache/
drwxrwxr-x 3 terry terry 4096 Mar 6 16:59 build-aux/
-rw-rw-r-- 1 terry terry 163272 Mar 6 16:59 config.log
-rwxrwxr-x 1 terry terry 1011199 Mar 6 16:59 configure*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 terry terry 48531 Mar 6 16:42 configure.ac
drwxrwxr-x 17 terry terry 4096 Mar 6 16:42 contrib/
-rw-rw-r-- 1 terry terry 13886 Mar 6 16:42 CONTRIBUTING.md
-rw-rw-r-- 1 terry terry 1142 Mar 6 16:42 COPYING
drwxrwxr-x 2 terry terry 4096 Mar 6 16:43 db4/
drwxrwxr-x 6 terry terry 4096 Mar 6 16:42 depends/
drwxrwxr-x 4 terry terry 4096 Mar 6 16:42 doc/
drwxrwxr-x 8 terry terry 4096 Mar 6 16:42 .git/
-rw-rw-r-- 1 terry terry 35 Mar 6 16:42 .gitattributes
drwxrwxr-x 2 terry terry 4096 Mar 6 16:42 .github/
-rw-rw-r-- 1 terry terry 1515 Mar 6 16:42 .gitignore
-rw-rw-r-- 1 terry terry 161 Mar 6 16:42 INSTALL.md
-rw-rw-r-- 1 terry terry 295 Mar 6 16:42 libbitcoinconsensus.pc.in
-rw-rw-r-- 1 terry terry 11091 Mar 6 16:42 Makefile.am
-rw-rw-r-- 1 terry terry 46839 Mar 6 16:59 Makefile.in
-rw-rw-r-- 1 terry terry 3600 Mar 6 16:42 README.md
drwxrwxr-x 5 terry terry 4096 Mar 6 16:42 share/
drwxrwxr-x 21 terry terry 4096 Mar 6 16:59 src/
drwxrwxr-x 4 terry terry 4096 Mar 6 16:42 test/
-rw-rw-r-- 1 terry terry 6959 Mar 6 16:42 .travis.yml
drwxrwxr-x 2 terry terry 4096 Mar 6 16:42 .tx/
terry@rootminingpool:/bitcoin$

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jazap commented May 31, 2018

Excellent work. How does one edit the qt client GUI interface?

@xiaoyue2019
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xiaoyue2019 commented Sep 3, 2018

Thanks for sharing, after the installation, the software language is garbled and I am getting an error:

If this sounds wrong, possibly the target language is not set or recognized.

what should I do?

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ashishcse0031 commented Apr 13, 2019

Thanks!

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VladWeb-V commented Oct 29, 2019 •
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Кто может помочь? Делаю форк для своего сайта, пытаюсь скомпилировать namecoin-qt командой make, :
mkdir obj sudo apt-get install build-essential sudo apt-get install libssl-dev sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libdb4.8-dev sudo apt-get install libdb4.8++-dev sudo apt-get install qt4-qmake libqt4-dev build-essential libboost-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-thread-dev libssl-dev libdb++-dev libminiupnpc-dev Сбилдим всё: sudo make -f makefile.unix USE_UPNP= cd .. sudo qmake sudo make

При использовании команды make пишет:
g++ -c -m64 -pipe -fstack-protector-all -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2 -D_REENTRANT -fdiagnostics-show-option -Wall -Wextra -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstack-protector -DQT_GUI -DBOOST_THREAD_USE_LIB -DBOOST_SPIRIT_THREADSAFE -DUSE_UPNP=1 -DSTATICLIB -DUSE_IPV6=1 -DHAVE_BUILD_INFO -DLINUX -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_NETWORK_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/share/qt4/mkspecs/linux-g++-64 -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore -I/usr/include/qt4/QtNetwork -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -I/usr/include/qt4 -Isrc -Isrc/json -Isrc/qt -Isrc/leveldb/include -Isrc/leveldb/helpers -Ibuild -Ibuild -o build/bitcoin.o src/qt/bitcoin.cpp make[1]: Вход в каталог /root/namecoin/src/leveldb'
make[1]: libleveldb.a' не требует обновления. make[1]: libmemenv.a' не требует обновления.
make[1]: Выход из каталога /root/namecoin/src/leveldb' g++ -c -m64 -pipe -fstack-protector-all -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2 -D_REENTRANT -fdiagnostics-show-option -Wall -Wextra -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstack-protector -DQT_GUI -DBOOST_THREAD_USE_LIB -DBOOST_SPIRIT_THREADSAFE -DUSE_UPNP=1 -DSTATICLIB -DUSE_IPV6=1 -DHAVE_BUILD_INFO -DLINUX -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_NETWORK_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/share/qt4/mkspecs/linux-g++-64 -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore -I/usr/include/qt4/QtNetwork -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -I/usr/include/qt4 -Isrc -Isrc/json -Isrc/qt -Isrc/leveldb/include -Isrc/leveldb/helpers -Ibuild -Ibuild -o build/bitcoingui.o src/qt/bitcoingui.cpp In file included from src/walletdb.h:9:0, from src/wallet.h:19, from src/init.h:8, from src/qt/bitcoin.cpp:13: src/base58.h: In member function ‘bool CBitcoinAddress::IsValid() const’: src/base58.h:306:13: error: duplicate case value case SCRIPT_ADDRESS: ^ src/base58.h:302:13: error: previously used here case PUBKEY_ADDRESS: ^ src/base58.h:315:13: error: duplicate case value case SCRIPT_ADDRESS_TEST: ^ src/base58.h:311:13: error: previously used here case PUBKEY_ADDRESS_TEST: ^ src/base58.h: In member function ‘CTxDestination CBitcoinAddress::Get() const’: src/base58.h:355:9: error: duplicate case value case SCRIPT_ADDRESS: ^ src/base58.h:349:9: error: previously used here case PUBKEY_ADDRESS: ^ src/base58.h:356:9: error: duplicate case value case SCRIPT_ADDRESS_TEST: { ^ src/base58.h:350:9: error: previously used here case PUBKEY_ADDRESS_TEST: { ^ In file included from src/walletdb.h:9:0, from src/wallet.h:19, from src/qt/bitcoingui.cpp:26: src/base58.h: In member function ‘bool CBitcoinAddress::IsValid() const’: src/base58.h:306:13: error: duplicate case value case SCRIPT_ADDRESS: ^ src/base58.h:302:13: error: previously used here case PUBKEY_ADDRESS: ^ src/base58.h:315:13: error: duplicate case value case SCRIPT_ADDRESS_TEST: ^ src/base58.h:311:13: error: previously used here case PUBKEY_ADDRESS_TEST: ^ src/base58.h: In member function ‘CTxDestination CBitcoinAddress::Get() const’: src/base58.h:355:9: error: duplicate case value case SCRIPT_ADDRESS: ^ src/base58.h:349:9: error: previously used here case PUBKEY_ADDRESS: ^ src/base58.h:356:9: error: duplicate case value case SCRIPT_ADDRESS_TEST: { ^ src/base58.h:350:9: error: previously used here case PUBKEY_ADDRESS_TEST: { ^ make: *** [build/bitcoin.o] Ошибка 1 make: *** Ожидание завершения заданий… make: *** [build/bitcoingui.o] Ошибка 1

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RaibeartRuadh commented Feb 9, 2021

Thank you! Really good!

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