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Can anyone walk me through the process of installing Bitcoin on 11.04? I'm new to linux, and this is really all I want to do with this computer.

EDIT: Perhaps this is too vague. I downloaded the tar.gz from the Bitcoin website, and the 32 bit binary (not sure if this is how you refer to it) will not run. I tried installing the deb package, but I see no way to run the client even though it is supposedly installed according to the package manager. I hope this helps.

Here is the link to the tar.gz

And this is the deb file I tried to install

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I added the links, but Rinzwind just replied and said that Bitcoin isn't available for 11.04, so I guess I'll just install a different distro. – Miles May 7 '11 at 14:57
Miles - You dont have to use a different distro as Rinzwind as indicated - you need just to edit your software sources for this PPA to point to maverick. – fossfreedom♦ May 7 '11 at 15:47
Do I do this in the package manager? – Miles May 9 '11 at 2:05
Correct - edit your software sources in a similar manner as this question: askubuntu.com/questions/41226/install-xbmc-on-natty/41238#41238 – fossfreedom♦ May 9 '11 at 5:51
I have forked this question: askubuntu.com/questions/47550/… – pedrorolo Jun 7 '11 at 21:49
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Launchpad has a Personal Package Archives (PPA) for bitcoin.

You can add this PPA to your system's software sources: ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin After that you can search ubuntu software center for bitcoin or from terminal sudo apt-get install bitcoin

By the way: bitcoin is only available for maverick and lucid so after adding the PPA change the distribution to maverick.

And a screenshot to finish it off:

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References:

To change from 'natty' to 'maverick' for a PPA you can do this from the Ubuntu software center: usc

Click the bitcoin PPA and choose edit. Next it changing 'Natty' to 'Maverick': usc2

Reload the sources (it will prompt for it) and you should be able to install maverick's version of 'bitcoin'.

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Oh. Right, I'm on Natty so that's probably why, thank you. – Miles May 7 '11 at 14:57
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Can you add some detail on the "change the distribution to maverick" so people who are on 11.04 can get it running? – Jorge Castro May 18 '11 at 15:05
@Miles have a look at how to change this (you can use maverick versions of software in Natty's version) – Rinzwind May 20 '11 at 18:18
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Something as big as bitcoin and opensource should really be in the default repository. – trampster Jun 10 '11 at 0:00
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There is an official PPA available: ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin. Also, the name of the package has been changed to bitcoin-qt. – phunehehe Apr 7 at 19:15
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The official client won't run on Natty, so someone compilated a version that works fine. Remember that it could be risky to run these things compilated by someone else, but here is a link to it: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/heht8/can_someone_help_me_to_get_the_official_bitcoin/c1ut1xw

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You can try using this ppa: bitcoin David Armstrong ppa launchpad

In your terminal window (press Alt+F2 and type gnome-terminal) and copy+paste the following lines:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stretch/bitcoin
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install bitcoin
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