I cant build and compile bitcoind on ubuntu

[niceWoman25]

Hello,

can you please assist me?

I would like to install bitcoind (head only) on a brand new VPS ubuntu 14.04 64 bit.

I tried to follow the guides. but it always fails. And I installed lots of dependencies and downloaded also the original bitcoin from github.

Then I enter in src directory the command : make -f makefile.unix
also this command: make -f makefile.unix clean; make -f makefile.unix USE_UPNP= bitcoind

only brings up the following errors:

make: makefile.unix: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `makefile.unix'.  Stop.

Perhaps I am missing the makefile.unix file?

When compiling other coins I dont have that problem. I dont know why.

Do you have any idea how to compile bitcoin at all properly on ubuntu?

edit:
now in the bitcoin directory I invoked these two commands successfully,

./autogen.sh
./configure

but thats all now. then I tried to invoke make. But not working. also I tried it in src/ directory not working.

i only get error messages:
make: *** No rule to make target `makefile.unix'.  Stop.

[Justin00]

usuallly for most (not all) unix progs its

./configure
make
make install

What happened after you ran ./configure ?

Also one of the files README or INSTALL maybe has the exact commands.

You will need to make sure you also have the dependancies.

Why not cheat and do 'apt-get install bitcoin-qt' hmm or bitcoin not 100% sure..
if you just installed vps do apt-get update
then apt-cache search bitcoin

then apt-get install bitcoinblah

[Justin00]

sorry I read your post again.. I see you did most things..
anyways I guess its just important to see exactly what "./configure" comes back with.. it should make the files needed so you can do a 'make'
sounds like configure is failing.

[johnathan32]

sorry I read your post again.. I see you did most things..
anyways I guess its just important to see exactly what "./configure" comes back with.. it should make the files needed so you can do a 'make'
sounds like configure is failing.

That's what I thought, probably your configure  when you try to check them cost

[Foxpup]

Then I enter in src directory the command : make -f makefile.unix
also this command: make -f makefile.unix clean; make -f makefile.unix USE_UPNP= bitcoind

only brings up the following errors:

make: makefile.unix: No such file or directory

Before using the -f argument with make, you might want to first check what the name of the makefile actually is. If you did (and configure completed successfully), you would see that Bitcoin's makefile is named Makefile, and the -f argument is thus not required. To compile Bitcoin, simply run make with no arguments.