[GUIDE] Setup your own ETH/ETC/EXP Parity node + Ethminer solo mining

This is based on Ubuntu server 16.04 and AMDGPU-Pro

From a fresh install, update system

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Install some useful utilities

Code:

sudo apt-get install screen htop tcptrack

For the miner (ethminer), you will need to install the AMDGPU-Pro, OpenCL (AMD SDK & ADL) .... if you need to get these steps PM me

If you, like me, will have parity run a PC and mining from a different one, then you could skip the GPU setup on the parity PC

there is a script for installing all dependencies needed for Parity:

Code:

bash <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ethcore/scripts/master/install-deps.sh -L)

I created a folder for the coins and installed parity in it

Code:

mkdir Coins
mkdir Coins/ETH
mkdir Coins/ETC
mkdir Coins/EXP
cd Coins
git clone https://github.com/ethcore/parity
cd parity
git submodule init
git submodule update
cargo build –release
sudo cp target/release/parity /usr/local/bin
cd ..

parity has a website to generate the toml config file
https://ethcore.github.io/parity-config-generator/

create 3 files and place each config.toml in designated folder for each coin

Code:

Coins/ETH/config.toml
Coins/ETC/config.toml
Coins/EXP/config.toml

# important toml configs

Code:

-	Mining section has to have the address that will collect the mined coins
-	Use “local” or actual local IP for interfaces
-	Using local will only allow connections from the same machine
-	Using IP will allow the machine to listen to outside connections
-	Open web UI with IP:ui port
-	If problem with web ui connection, delete “authcodes” file in Sign folder
-       Make sure that ports for each coin are different (I use 8080, 8081, 8082 ... and same for all other needed ports)

# run each node

Code:

# eth
parity --config /home/user/Coins/ETH/config.toml 
# etc
parity --config /home/user/Coins/ETC/config.toml 
# exp 
parity --config /home/user/Coins/EXP/config.toml

I use a different PC for running the miner, for that make sure that you have installed the GPU drivers (AMDGPU-Pro, SDK, etc..)

To install ethminer:

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ethereum/ethereum
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ethereum/ethereum-qt
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ethereum

sudo apt-get install git cmake libleveldb-dev libboost-all-dev libgmp-dev libreadline-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev ocl-icd-libopencl1 opencl-headers mesa-common-dev libmicrohttpd-dev build-essential libjsoncpp-dev libjsonrpccpp-dev –y

git clone https://github.com/nerdralph/ethminer-nr.git
cd ethminer-nr
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DBUNDLE=miner ..
make -j$(nproc)

for some reason Genoil did not compile, so I found this fork by nerdralph that works fine

to run ethminer:

Code:

./ethminer/ethminer -G -F <parity IP>:<rpc port>

make sure that each config.toml has the following:

Code:

[mining]
# Account address to receive reward when block is mined.
author = "your coin address"

Hope this is of help to you

Donations are always welcomed ;-)