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Title: Running Armory on Testnet Post by: etotheipi on November 20, 2013, 09:00:00 PM If you want to run Armory on testnet, you'll have to disable auto-bitcoind and run Bitcoin-Qt or bitcoind in testnet mode manually. And especially confusing is the fact that Armory and Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind use inconsistent command line arguments. For instance, you use "-testnet" flag with Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind and "--testnet" flag for Armory (yes, one slash for bitcoin, two slashes for Armory). To be more explicit:
Due to some quirks in the path resolution, if you want to use a custom directory for Armory and Bitcoin, the --datadir and --satoshi-datadir arguments are inconsistent. For instance, if you moved both your bitcoin home dir and your armory home dir to F:\Bitcoin and F:\Armory, respectively, do the following: Code: bitcoind.exe -testnet -datadir=F:\Bitcoin The problem is that Bitcoin-Qt expects the base bitcoin home directory, even for testnet, and will add the "testnet3" for you. If you specify F:\Bitcoin\testnet3, it will run in F:\Bitcoin\testnet3\testnet3. But I did not realize this when I setup the code for processing arguments, and Armory requires explicitly specifying the full path. Title: Re: Running Armory on Testnet Post by: dserrano5 on November 20, 2013, 09:49:49 PM Website requires javascript to access the downloads section. That's a downer.
No .tar.gz for online systems? I'd rather have everything concerning armory under /home/armory than install a system-wide .deb. Is the 0.89.99.14-testing .deb package signed? Code: $ dpkg-sig --verify armory_0.89.99.14-testing_amd64.deb Oh, well I tried but my lucid is too ancient unfortunately: Code: armory depends on libc6 (>= 2.14); however: Pity! (Edit: well I guess I could try to compile it) Title: Re: Running Armory on Testnet Post by: etotheipi on November 20, 2013, 10:19:29 PM First of all, this is the thread about running Armory on testnet! I think you posted to the wrong thready by accident! Move your reply and to the RAM-reduction thread and I'll move mine!
Website requires javascript to access the downloads section. That's a downer. No .tar.gz for online systems? I'd rather have everything concerning armory under /home/armory than install a system-wide .deb. Is the 0.89.99.14-testing .deb package signed? Code: $ dpkg-sig --verify armory_0.89.99.14-testing_amd64.deb Oh, well I tried but my lucid is too ancient unfortunately: Code: armory depends on libc6 (>= 2.14); however: Pity! (Edit: well I guess I could try to compile it) So I don't usually go through the effort of signing the testing versions, but since they are posted on the website I will go through the effort. I definitely should've done that (but I've been rather busy recently and it slipped my mind)... Though, the tar.gz package is a good idea. I hadn't thought of distributing one of those. Also, compiling on Linux is pretty darned simple. It's five lines at the terminal to install all dependencies and build (https://bitcoinarmory.com/download/building-armory-from-source/) (though I haven't tried it on 10.04 in a while, but I never had a problem with it). I'll get some signatures on those things right away. Title: Re: Running Armory on Testnet Post by: dserrano5 on November 20, 2013, 10:39:02 PM First of all, this is the thread about running Armory on testnet! I think you posted to the wrong thready by accident! Move your reply and to the RAM-reduction thread and I'll move mine! No, it's correct. I've wanted to try this piece of software for a long time and testnet is ideal because I can just copy the 500 Mb testnet3 directory from elsewhere to ~armory/.bitcoin and play with it. Doing this with mainnet is, well, somewhat heavier :). Compiles fine (and quick!) on lucid, however fails to find my bitcoind binary. Not an issue on testnet, though, so I won't delve further into that. Tomorrow I'll play with it. Thank you! Title: Re: Running Armory on Testnet Post by: etotheipi on November 20, 2013, 11:43:42 PM Just posted signed installers, and hashes files.
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