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I can't find bitcoind packages.

# apt-cache search bitcoin
bfgminer - multi-threaded multi-pool ASIC, FPGA and GPU bitcoin miner
cgminer - multi-threaded multi-pool Bitcoin miner
electrum - Easy to use bitcoin client
libblkmaker-0.1-0 - implementation of getblocktemplate protocol
libblkmaker-0.1-dev - C implementation of getblocktemplate protocol - development files
python-electrum - Easy to use bitcoin client - python module

What is the reason to remove bitcoind, but insert miners: cgminer, bfgminer?

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  • Why was the question closed? It's a very clear question, at least to me.
    – v010dya
    Jan 23, 2015 at 14:25

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A bit of Googling leads to this bug for bitcoin in Ubuntu, which has this Ubuntu MoTU mailing list post. This passage, at the end, explains it:

For these reasons and others, including the Bitcoin software in any stable, no-updates release is not a good thing for Ubuntu users nor for the bitcoin network as a whole. There is already a PPA, maintained by Matt Corallo, one of the core developers, and linked to from http://bitcoin.org/en/download. Said PPA provides both the Bitcoin software and the BDB 4.8 packages needed for wallet compatibility with the software on other platforms. Over at Debian, their Bitcoin Packaging Team has been maintaining the package, keeping it in the unstable branch (sid) only, where it is allowed to be updated with new releases of the software. It is not included in the stable repository (wheezy), nor in testing (jessie). If I understand correctly, Ubuntu doesn't have that kind of release. It is my opinion that, given Ubuntu's methods of managing its software, it would be better to not include Bitcoin in the Ubuntu repositories, unless exceptions to the policies could be made, allowing all supported Ubuntu versions to get the latest updates as they come down from upstream. As a first step, the Bitcoin software should be removed from Trusty's repositories, assuming no exception can be made. Ideally, it would also be removed from the older repositories (Precise, Quantal, Raring, Saucy) if it can't be updated, though I'm told that's significantly harder from the perspective of the standard workflows.

The PPA mentioned is https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/ubuntu/bitcoin.

As for cgminer and bfgminer, from what I understand, bitcoind is the daemon behind the Bitcoin wallet (and the CLI interface), and not a miner by itself. And cgminer is one of the more popular mining software out there.

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