BitCoin Client Won't Sync on Linux WINE Program

[LinuxCoiner]

Hi everyone. This is my first post here. The computer I am using has Linux, and I am not good with Linux at all so I installed a Windows emulator called Wine which allows windows executable file to run.

I downloaded and installed WINE, downloaded the Bitcoin 32-bit client, installed, and now it is running. However, it is not syncing my wallet!

Any suggestions on how to start syncing? Thank you!

[01BTC10]

Open a terminal and type:

Code:

sudo apt-get install bitcoin-qt

Done.

[LinuxCoiner]

I did that and I get E: Unable to locate package bitcoin-qt?

Any suggestions? I really just want to get Bitcoin working on Linux 

Thanks!

[LinuxCoiner]

I'm having a lot of trouble here. Before I downloaded BitCoin on Windows and used a .exe.

However, I have a different computer now and it is running Ubuntu 12.10. I have tried installing the client and have absolutely no idea what PPA is or how to install software on Ubuntu. Is there a good tutorial somewhere to do this?

[Foxpup]

Forget the PPA, just download the Linux tar.gz file, unzip it, then in the bin folder you will finds two subfolders, 32 (for 32-bit systems) and 64 (for 64-bit systems). Open the one that corresponds to you system and run bitcoin-qt. That's it. If you want to install it "properly", just copy bitcoin-qt to /usr/bin (requires root privileges).

[LinuxCoiner]

Fantastic. I finally have it running. Thank you so much!