As i promised, a small manual to build Electra wallet under ubuntu
I used a fresh virtual machine with Ubuntu 16.04.3, let me know if you have issues in later versions, we'll try to figure something out
So, first i added the bitcoin repository to install libdb4.8, because
Ubuntu 12.04 and later have packages for libdb5.1-dev and libdb5.1++-dev, but using these will break binary wallet compatibility, and is not recommended.
So, the instructions are:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install git build-essential libssl-dev libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev libboost-all-dev libminiupnpc-dev qt5-default qt5-qmake qtbase5-dev-tools qttools5-dev-tools
mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src
git clone https://github.com/electra01/Electra
cd ~/src/Electra
qmake
make
I assumed that users would like to build a GUI wallet, so i included qt-* libs.
After the
make command finished, you will have the
Electra-qt executable file, which is th Electra coin wallet. You can copy/move this file to any location.
./Electra-qt
At the first run you will most likely see an error message. Just start the wallet again.
And don't forget to create the
Electra.conf file in
~/.Electra directory and add some nodes. Somehow, it is not created automatically.
