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.
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.
