Thank you for your reply - I checked here

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/berkeleydb/downloads/index-082944.html

and 4.8 is not available.... just 4.8.3

Just searched google and do not see anything linking to just 4.8.... they all seem to have an extra number after the 8....

What do you mean by your last comment?
I am new to do this so if there is an easier way I am all for it.... If when I am done, I can have my RasPi2 setup as a minor so I can have a better understanding of how this works... That is my ernd goal... Thanks

when I run it as just

./configure

I get the following:

configure: error: Found Berkeley DB other than 4.8, required for portable wallets (--with-incompatible-bdb to ignore or --disable-wallet to disable wallet functionality)


when I run configure with

configure: error: Found Berkeley DB other than 4.8, required for portable wallets (--with-incompatible-bdb to ignore or --disable-wallet to disable wallet functionality)


it works with zero errors but now will get make errors.
Will rerun make then post the errors.....For some reason it gives me the idea might be memory....

I will try to replicate it and post the error.... lead me to believe I was out of memory but not 100% sure

Do I need that database?

I did

./configure

and it failed giving DB errors....

Google to the rescue hopefully?

Still moving forward and learning

THANK YOU

the .configure with all the extras worked however make command left me with loads of errors

going to do some google searching.... right now unsure where to start.....

I found it will post what I did in a few.... THANK YOU ALL

Next guess make a wallet and a pool account...

Now I have thos error -

checking into it....

libdb_cxx headers missing, Bitcoin Core requires this library for wallet functionality

Thanks just installed libtool and will look at those instructions in the link

woohoo - getting closer... Learning a lot today thanks

Hope you don't mind if I post some of my findings here....

My goal is to learn how to turn my RasPi 2 into a miner...

In order to mine Bitcoin I found this list is needed:
*    A pool account
*    Bitcoin Wallet
*    Raspberry Pi
*    Raspbian image SD card
*    USB Bitcoin miner


All seem to state you need all of these files installed:

sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf libssl-dev libboost-dev libboost-chrono-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-thread-dev libqt4-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler libqrencode-dev

Hope that is the complete list of prerqu's... 

Then each one say you need this databse

Installing BerkeleyDB 4.8

wget download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz
tar -xzvf db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz
cd db-4.8.30.NC/build_unix/
(This part is going to take a while)
../dist/configure –enable-cxx
make
sudo make install

!! If you are running a RaspberryPi2, replace the make command with make -j4 to use those extra cores !!

That is where I am so far... The databse installed perfectly... Now trying to get the bitcoin-master.zip to install from https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin

If I am doing anything wrong and need to be corrected - this is my first run through so please feel free to give advice. THANKS   

Hi -

I am new to the forum. I wanted to introduce myself. I have been reading the high level what it is about....Then I see loads of Raspberry Pi tutorials for mining however cannot find one that is straight forward and easy to follow.

Each tutorial says you need to create a wallet and pool account but they do not show you how to do either. At least the ones I have found so far.

Unsure if it matters but I am doing this on a Raspberry Pi 2
I am doing this to just more educate myself on the subject so price for a USB Miner was an issue - I chose a used one from fleabay.
-- USB Asicminer Block Erupter Miner for $12 shipped... Hope that is good enough to learn with and then determine if I want to grow from there.

So that is what I am doing and came across this forum in the process. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Now off to look at other threads to try and find some useful information on my journey.