Bitcoin Forum

Was going to do some dev so built this and wondered if anyone else would like to use it.

1) Download and install Virtual Box: https://www.virtualbox.org/
2) Download via torrent this: http://www.rowit.co.uk/bitcoin-qt-dev.zip.torrent (please seed if you do as 1.5Gig!).
3) Unzip it.
4) Start the virtual machine that it contains.

Bitcoin is in:
~/bitcoin
Just cd to there and type:
git pull
to get latest version

Open QT (Green Icon on left of screen)
Click run in bottom left and bitcoin-qt will compile (3-10mins) then start up.

sudo password is bitcoin.

Below is screenshot:
http://www.rowit.co.uk/Capture.PNG

I should spend a bit of time uninstalling stuff to make image smaller...

Or you can do it yourself by:
download
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

From Terminal:
sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git

sudo apt-get install g++ build-essential libboost-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-thread-dev libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libminiupnpc-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

cd bitcoin/src
make -f makefile.unix
./bitcoind

sudo apt-get install qt4-qmake libqt4-dev

cd ..
qmake
make
./bitcoin-qt

Neat.

Remember folks, don't use real bitcoin wallets in a development environment.