[XPM] Install and Run Primecoin High Performance Linux on BAMT 1.1 for Litecoin

Hello!

I was having issues installing Primecoind HP9 on my LitecoinBAMT1.1 rigs, and ended up working through it. I know that a lot of you might be having the same problems, so I've listed my install and config steps that are a slight variation of the Ubuntu 13.04 and CentOS 6.4 instructions by mikaelh.

On a fresh image of BAMT 1.1 by bee, do the following steps:

Step 1. Installing the required dependencies

Starting with installing htop to monitor system resources and cpulimit to throttle so the performance of your GPU mining doesn't take a hit:

Code:

sudo su
aptitude install cpulimit
sudo apt-get install htop

Installing Lib:

Code:

apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libboost-all-dev libdb4.8++-dev -y

Step 2. Compiling GMP

Code:

apt-get install libgmp3-dev

Step 3. Compiling primecoind

Code:

wget -O primecoin-0.1.2-hp9.tar.bz2 "http://sourceforge.net/projects/primecoin-hp/files/0.1.2-hp9/primecoin-0.1.2-hp9.tar.bz2"
tar -xvjf primecoin-0.1.2-hp9.tar.bz2
mv primecoin-0.1.2-hp9 primecoin
cd primecoin/src
make -f makefile.unix USE_UPNP=-

Step 4. Configuration

Replace genproclimit=[number] with the number of cores you have on your rig. (I recommend using one less than the number if you don't want to use CPUlimit or if you have a multi-core system, hence 3 because I'm on a quad-core)

Code:

mkdir ~/.primecoin
echo "rpcuser=USER
rpcpassword=PASSWORD
gen=1
genproclimit=3
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1" > ~/.primecoin/primecoin.conf

Code:

sudo mv primecoind /usr/local/bin/.

Creating run, stop and watch scripts to make for easy management:

Code:

cd
echo '#!/bin/bash
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
killall --older-than 10s -q run-primecoind primecoind
function background_loop
        while :; do
                primecoind >/dev/null 2>&1
                sleep 1
        done
background_loop &' > run-primecoind
chmod +x run-primecoind

Code:

cd
echo '#!/bin/bash
killall -q run-primecoind
primecoind stop' > stop-primecoind
chmod +x stop-primecoind

Code:

cd
echo '#!/bin/bash'
watch -n 5 'primecoind getmininginfo & primecoind listaccounts & primecoind getconnectioncount & primecoind listtransactions' > watch-primecoind
chmod +x watch-primecoind

Step 5. Starting mining

Type the following to start mining:

Code:

./run-primecoind

If you want to throttle the process, use this code or incorporate cpulimit into your run-primcoind script above:

Code:

cpulimit -e primecoind -l 90 &

This let's you still have 10% of your processing to feed your OS and GPUs.

Step 6. Monitoring the progress

Type this to check the mining status:

Code:

./watch-primecoind

Step 7. Stopping mining

Type this to stop mining:

Code:

./stop-primecoind

That's it, you should be up and going mining 2 currencies at once with your rig!... Thanks for listening!

Inspiration for this guide was derived from Mikaelh's guide located here.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=259022.0
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