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Using gitian to create multi-OS, multi-arch builds of bitcoin-like blockchains

Warning

This steps in this guide will leave your machine highly insecure. Hence, the guide should be used on a temporary VPS not an actual machine/server.

Setting up Ubuntu for gitian building

In this section we will be setting up the Ubuntu installation for Gitian building. We are using the user builder to do the setup. You can use any non-root user.

First we need to log in as root to set up dependencies and make sure that our