That was plan B.  Sad part is I got so much running on Angstrom, it feels a shame after all the work.

Thanks for the reply.

Angstrom is great and all, but the lack of libraries is driving me nuts.
I can't find a good "howto" online so I'm asking directly
I believe my compile is stuck on the fact that none of these libs are availble to the "opkg install"
Dependencies
---------------------
 Library     Purpose           Description
 -------     -------           -----------
 libssl      SSL Support       Secure communications
 libdb4.8    Berkeley DB       Wallet storage
 libboost    Boost             C++ Library
 miniupnpc   UPnP Support      Optional firewall-jumping support
 qt          GUI               GUI toolkit
 protobuf    Payments in GUI   Data interchange format used for payment protocol
 libqrencode QR codes in GUI   Optional for generating QR codes\

Does anyone know a better way to approach this?  I've got just about everything else

Thanks, that saves me a lot of research.  I was getting a little flustered.  But I guess crypto-currencies are still pretty young.

Thanks.

I guess my point is with all of the crypto-currencies out there, it seems unwieldy to have a unique client for each. (and dangerous as it's hard to know what sources to trust) 

I expected to configure the .conf in bitcoind to "connect" it to the hobonickel (or any other currency) blockchain.  I'm seeing it's not the case.

Is there any reason a client couldn't be used for any currency?  I thought they all followed the same model.

I have a feeling I'm going to have to learn the hardway by digging though the bitcoind source...

I'm having difficulty "google'ing" my question so I came for some help.

I assumed that I could re-configure my bitcoind/bitcoin-qt using a ".conf" file that was set up for an alternate currency (hobonickels, how cool is that?)

However, I've noticed my hobo-configured bitcoin-qt generates Bitcoin addresses not HBN addresses.

It seems to me that every cryptocurrency has a similar but unique and incompatible client tool.  Is this right?  Why?