Bitcoin Forum

Hello,

I've setup a launchpad PPA to host Ubuntu packages of bitcoin.  Version 0.3.19 is up now with builds for maverick and lucid.  I've tested the Maverick build and it runs ok for me, I don't have a machine around to test Lucid.

The PPA is hosted at https://launchpad.net/~stretch/+archive/bitcoin

To install on Ubuntu:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:stretch/bitcoin
sudo apt-get install bitcoin

then to run
bitcoin or bitcoind - both are in /usr/bin

If this works/doesn't work for anyone please let me know.

thanks!

Also see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578157

+1 another reason to remove the wxWidgets code from Bitcoin and allow others to make their own.

Very nice!  Let me ask some dumb questions:


What does PPA stand for?

Does launchpad help solve the 'trusted build' problem-- e.g. does the build process automatically fetch from source code that we can all look at and audit?

How hard would it be to setup something similar to produce regular builds of the github integration repository?

Right now, the bitcoin build process is "Satoshi does it."  Using Launchpad to create the Linux builds seems like the right way to go.

Last dumb question:  are there services similar to Launchpad for building Mac/Windows software?

... but Launchpad won't build (run the compiler on one of their machines) Mac/Windows software, or did I miss that feature when I looked at the website?

Here's my limited knowledge about it, but please someone correct/complete this information. Ubuntu and Debian packages are built by the uploader of the package (who is not always the same person as the package maintainer, btw). I don't know about Ubuntu, but in the case of Debian, the uploader is a trusted DD (Debian Developper), who reviews at least the package-specific diff produced by the package maintainer (if not the whole source), builds the binary, signs the whole thing and uploads it. For all other architectures than those the DD has access to, binaries are automatically built by a daemon at Debian's. It's possible that the daemon also rebuilds the binary on the archs provided by the DD, but I'm not sure of that part.

I suspect Ubuntu packages to work in a similar way – I'm not sure about the specific case of PPAs, though, since they're user-provided.

I'm still a PPA novice so my answers might not be 100% right....


It won't automatically fetch the source, but it does force me to upload the source (and an optional patch) and builds packages from those.

In this case I took the tarball from sourceforge.  The patch is minimal, just thin wrapper around the bitcoin makefile to keep the debian build system happy.

On https://launchpad.net/~stretch/+archive/bitcoin/+packages (https://launchpad.net/~stretch/+archive/bitcoin/+packages) you can poke around a bit and you'll see download links for all the various files, and on http://launchpadlibrarian.net/61656269/bitcoin_0.3.19-maverick6_source.changes (http://launchpadlibrarian.net/61656269/bitcoin_0.3.19-maverick6_source.changes) you'll be able to verify the checksums match to the original tarball.


With your own dedicated machine it would be fairly easy, just a cron job to checkout a snapshot, tar up and submit to launchpad.  We can eliminate the patch file by checking those changes back into the main source tree.

I don't know whether or not launchpad could host the cron job for us.

Debian packages were uploaded in december, now awaiting  ftpmaster approval:
   http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/bitcoin_0.3.19~dfsg-2.html

   It is also unofficially available using this APT line:

      deb http://debian.jones.dk/ unstable freedombox

   ...or manually downloaded here:

      http://debian.jones.dk/pkg/freedombox/bitcoin/

   ...or git cloned from here:

      git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/bitcoin

It's going to be pretty nice and strengthening to have all debian geeks putting their sleepy boxes to mine :)

Did not install on my Ubuntu 10.04 x86-64:

Oops!!!  I feel like an idiot!  (But I included the error message so that a smart person like you could read it and copy and paste it for me)  :-[


Yup!  That's exactly the problem. I just fixed my sources.list, and it installs just fine.


Don't worry, I'm a vim user.  :)

Just installed on Ubuntu 10.10 i386...  Install was quick and flawless, but bitcoin only runs for maybe 30 seconds and then disappears  :-\  Not sure what to do there...  It's not minimizing to the taskbar, either.

Works flawless on Ubuntu 10.10 i386 here.

When I try to install it says:



Is the package gone from the repository? (I succesfully added the PPA prior to installing).

I just got the exact same thing.  I'm no Linux guru, but I have a 10.04 Server that I use for really only a few things, like secure browsing while traveling, bacula, etc.  It could run bitcoin pretty much 24/7 and I wouldn't notice.  I could also run it on my FreeNAS if that were even possible.

Just started Ubuntu on VM and still no bitcoin in repositories after 2 years of the project activity & dynamic development.

Is somebody working on officially pushing bitcoin to central/canonical Ubuntu repos ? This could significantly increase BTC popularity.
(The same with other distros)

Hi,

If you have a small server, you can check my repository to test bitcoind (not gui).
http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2207

In the next update i build for: lucid, maverick and natty.

Greetings.

Is not necessary, if exist an official debian package, only is necesary send a request for sync, with that, ubuntu will use the debian package.

In other way, i can send my own package to ubuntu revu.

example: bitcoin-cpuminer in ubuntu revu
http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/p/bitcoin-cpuminer

Greetings.

Very good idea.

Cheers.

Did you run sudo apt-get update before you tried to install bitcoin?

I just installed it on 10.10 and it seems to be going fine at generating blocks, I don't however have any idea what its doing or how the system works so I'm gonna go do some reading.

Goodluck

This does not seem to be up... 

I found an issue today with ubuntu 11.04 using either unity or compiz and the bitcoin GUI not working - the window simply does not appear.  There was already a workaround submitted to the wxwidgets repository so I've applied that patch to my ppa.

Please try installing the latest version from https://launchpad.net/~stretch/+archive/bitcoin and see if that works for you.

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

Thanks, man.
Working great
https://i.imgur.com/XmZJKl.jpg (http://imgur.com/XmZJK)

working fine on Linux Mint 11 ;)

First of all, thanks for this.
I was able to add this PPA and install without a problem using Ubuntu 10.10. However the repository has version 0.3.24 of the client. Any plans on updating this to version 0.4.0?

Hey is this still active?  The version in the repos seems to be 0.3.24-beta, and 0.4.0 has been out for a while.

An official bitcoin PPA with version 0.5.0 is being worked on

A new official bitcoin ppa has been released at https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/bitcoin

This includes the new 0.5.0 RC bitcoin-qt release.

Thanks graingert it installed flawlessly on 11.10. Easy to follow guide for ubuntu 11.10 :

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

Now you have a nice bitcoin-qt application in the office menu.

Bitcoin-qt didn't show up in the Ubuntu Software Center until I ran that command, but I did see bitcoind. Can anyone explain why, please?

Office menu?  What does this mean?

I just installed this yesterday.  Bitcoin shows up in the Applications menu within Office.

Does this apply to 12.04?

what i installed was the PPA which will automatically incl updates for Bitcoin when Ubuntu recommends upgrades.  so yes, it should.

^this

I'm of the opinion that bitcoind/Bitcoin-Qt shouldn't be pushed to the central/canonical repos until we hit version 1.0.

Until then, I think we change too much too often (e.g. the blockchain format completely changed in the 0.8 release, and the wallet format will likely be changed before we hit version 1.0).

Exactly. You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

Better integration with Ubuntu Unity is needed. I find that the Bitcoin menu does not appear on the Unity top menu bar.

Same here. Since this are packages for Ubuntu it would be expected by a normal user to behave correctcly with its default DE.

Yep.   It's an annoyance.

I had exactly the same problem as riz experienced (see this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=117909.0)

When I download and install the USB using Unetbootin in windows 7, i picked 12.04 live and installed to a  USB stick giving a few gig persistence thinking that can be used for the blockchain files.

I get it installed and on first boot to USB i open a terminal and

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

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 bitcoin-qt : Depends: libboost-filesystem1.46.1 (>= 1.46.1-1) but it is not installable
              Depends: libboost-system1.46.1 (>= 1.46.1-1) but it is not installable
              Depends: libboost-thread1.46.1 (>= 1.46.1-1) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I just have this feeling that it is not working with Ubuntu 12.04.2

the PPA was just made available on 2/23.

Yesterday (May 4th, 2013), the packages on the PPA were updated.  After the upgrade, the Bitcoin client no longer starts, due to database incompatibility problems.  Anyone else having the same problem?

Me

This will definately be useful , Thank you for the contribution :P