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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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10.10

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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Bitcoin has now an officially maintained PPA with a release candidate version of the peer-to-peer daemon and the client.

Bitcoin has a launchpad project i.e. same project status as Unity/Docky/Openshot etc. The maintainer - Matt Corallo - is a major contributor to the official bitcoin.org website.

This will upgrade all versions from 10.04 and later.

The following instructions will upgrade your system to the latest version of the client

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

Confirmation that this OK to use is via the bitcoin forums.

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@pedrorolo Bitcoin project page says the that the bitcoin team is responsible for the repo packages as well as the PPA. As such, I'll be awarding this answer my bounty. – Oxwivi Nov 4 '11 at 12:43
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11.04

bitcoin with Unity doesnt work due to an issue with Compiz - this is the bug report

This issue has been discussed with a few suggestions on the bitcoin forums

In summary - if you dont want to install

  1. a new versions of bitcoin either via ppa's or from the latest source on the bitcoin website, or
  2. update the wxwidget libraries,

you should logout of Unity and choose the session "Ubuntu classic (no effects)" - i.e. running ubuntu without any compiz effects.

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So how do we update the wxwidget libraries? – Oxwivi Jun 27 '11 at 8:13
@Oxwivi - worth a new question if you want perhaps detailed steps - in summary goto wxwidgets.org and download and compile the latest source-code from the wxWidgets-trunk – fossfreedom♦ Jun 27 '11 at 8:29
Quite helpfully, it seems they provide a repo with these instructions. – Oxwivi Jun 27 '11 at 8:37
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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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