building bitcoin and pulls

[ctoon6]

I want to build bitcoin from source and include a pull from git, i got ubuntu installed and git installed, but after that i'm lost lol.

I have never user ubuntu or linux in general before, i am however good in using the command prompt in windows, but not osx.

i got the terminal open in ubuntu and did "sudo apt-get install git" and i got git installed not even knowing what sudo or apt-get is.

then i tried "git https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git" and git git://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git" and even "git checkout git://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git"

i am soo noobish at this i will probably need instruction on how to build with the pull too. id like to compile for both windows and linux, if you can even do that.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/220

any help with be very much appreciated.

[willphase]

I believe bitcointools allows some limited import/export of keys, if that's what you need.

https://github.com/gavinandresen/bitcointools

Will

[ctoon6]

thanks for the reply, this is what i needed.

[willphase]

if you want to export your public addresses, you could use the tool I wrote to export addresses for import into my android wallet balance viewer.  There are binaries (and source) on the googlecode page here.  It only does public keys though, nothing private.

Will