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Title: c-lightning on ubuntu Post by: lapidary on November 06, 2020, 01:40:06 PM Hello all,
I have Ubuntu 20, I did snap install bitcoin-core, now I want c-lightning, but can't see to make it work. I can add the PPA for lightning network, install it; but it can't find bitcoin. Quote bitcoin-cli not found. Do I need to reinstall bitcoin in a different way than snap? I would like to preserve my blockchain and bitcoin.conf (yes I have a backup of that)Does anyone have a tutorial I can follow? Title: Re: c-lightning on ubuntu Post by: Rath_ on November 06, 2020, 01:45:21 PM Does anyone have a tutorial I can follow? What instructions have you followed so far? You can try following these instructions (https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/blob/master/doc/INSTALL.md#to-build-on-ubuntu) instead. Bitcoin Core installation using snap is also described there. The following command might help you with your error. Code: (https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/blob/master/doc/INSTALL.md#to-build-on-ubuntu) # Snap does some weird things with binary names; you'll Title: Re: c-lightning on ubuntu Post by: Carlton Banks on November 06, 2020, 04:20:33 PM ^ good advice
You need to find where snap has put bitcoin-cli, as lightningd is looking for it in the wrong place /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin are typical directories (folders) for installing programs, but it seems snap puts programs installed using it in a different place ...and... Beware! Don't be surprised in the future if snap "updates" the place where bitcoin-cli etc is installed, then the link in @Rath's post will stop working (the ln -s terminal command) My advice: learn how to install programs _without_ snap packages, the sooner you do it, the faster you can say goodbye to this kind of problem Title: Re: c-lightning on ubuntu Post by: Carlton Banks on November 06, 2020, 04:33:59 PM Does anyone have a tutorial I can follow? so here is my tutorial :D 1. Open Terminal, do sudo find / -name bitcoin-cli 2. Take the result, and do ln -s /usr/local/bin <result> 3. Don't forget that Snap might change all this later! Then you have the fun of doing it all again Title: Re: c-lightning on ubuntu Post by: lapidary on November 06, 2020, 08:54:56 PM I'm getting closer; making a link is good; but my node rpc listens on my local IPv4 address and not on localhost. so I think that is why it still is complaining about not finding bitcoin-cli. Does c-lighting have a config setting for host user and password?
Title: Re: c-lightning on ubuntu Post by: AdolfinWolf on November 06, 2020, 08:59:47 PM I'm getting closer; making a link is good; but my node rpc listens on my local IPv4 address and not on localhost. so I think that is why it still is complaining about not finding bitcoin-cli. Does c-lighting have a config setting for host user and password? I don't use C-Lightning, but did you check out this documentation here? https://lightning.readthedocs.io/lightningd-config.5.htmlTitle: Re: c-lightning on ubuntu Post by: lapidary on November 06, 2020, 09:54:50 PM ah, thanks!
nothing as good as proper documentation. --bitcoin-cli --bitcoin-rpcuser and --bitcoin-rpcpassword; now it's happy!! So much more to learn; but at least it's running Title: Re: c-lightning on ubuntu Post by: ABCbits on November 07, 2020, 10:13:55 AM For future reference, you can run Bitcoin Core directly with these command
Code: snap run bitcoin-core.cli /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin are typical directories (folders) for installing programs, but it seems snap puts programs installed using it in a different place Some documentation mention it's on /snap/bin. It store all application installed by Snap, but if you run ls -l, you will find out, 1. The application actually only act as symbolic links. 2. Snap change default binary name of an application (e.g. bitcoin-cli become bitcoin-core.cli) But alternatively you could find the executable by using command lsblk, then see which mountpoint belong to application (e.g. Bitcoin Core at /snap/bitcoin-core/319). Code: $ cd /snap/bitcoin-core/319 TLDR, snap provide easy installation, but annoying for everything else. |