Linux live cd with Bitcoin already installed?

[MakeBelieve]

I was wondering if there was a Linux live cd with Bitcoin already installed on it because I have had difficulty installing the Bitcoin client on Linux recently I don't know why or if its to do with compatability with the linux version.

I'm looking for a live cd with Bitcoin already installed to make it easier does this exist and does it work on the stable version of Linux?

[davidpbrown]

Wouldn't trust it, if it did exist.

Which flavour of linux you using? I've not had problems on Mint, so expect all flavours Debian are stable.

Can you not just download bitcoin-0.8.6-linux.tar.gz from https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.8.6/ extract from tar.gz and run the //bitcoin-0.8.6-linux/bin/32/bitcoin-qt ?

Potentially it's drawing on certain installs that you might be missing. Install all these for everything that should be needed to compile from source on github:

sudo apt-get -y install checkinstall subversion git git-core build-essential libssl-dev libdb++-dev libminiupnpc-dev libboost-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-thread-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig-dev libxrender-dev libsm-dev libglib2.0-dev libxext-dev libxext6-dbg x11proto-xext-dev

[MakeBelieve]

Wouldn't trust it, if it did exist.

Which flavour of linux you using? I've not had problems on Mint, so expect all flavours Debian are stable.

Can you not just download bitcoin-0.8.6-linux.tar.gz from https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.8.6/ extract from tar.gz and run the //bitcoin-0.8.6-linux/bin/32/bitcoin-qt ?

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 but have had problems installing from the terminal. I haven't extracted the tar.gz from bitcoin.org and I guess I could try that and see if that works I don't know why it's not working in the command line because I have root access etc.

[Its About Sharing]

Wouldn't trust it, if it did exist.

Which flavour of linux you using? I've not had problems on Mint, so expect all flavours Debian are stable.

Can you not just download bitcoin-0.8.6-linux.tar.gz from https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.8.6/ extract from tar.gz and run the //bitcoin-0.8.6-linux/bin/32/bitcoin-qt ?

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 but have had problems installing from the terminal. I haven't extracted the tar.gz from bitcoin.org and I guess I could try that and see if that works I don't know why it's not working in the command line because I have root access etc.

You can install Bitcoin from the repository (I think it is called). I originally did it from here without problems though (not using a tarball) - http://www.distrogeeks.com/install-bitcoin-qt-ubuntu/
I had no problems on Ubunto 13.10 but imagine it would be the same on 12.04.

[MakeBelieve]

Wouldn't trust it, if it did exist.

Which flavour of linux you using? I've not had problems on Mint, so expect all flavours Debian are stable.

Can you not just download bitcoin-0.8.6-linux.tar.gz from https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.8.6/ extract from tar.gz and run the //bitcoin-0.8.6-linux/bin/32/bitcoin-qt ?

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 but have had problems installing from the terminal. I haven't extracted the tar.gz from bitcoin.org and I guess I could try that and see if that works I don't know why it's not working in the command line because I have root access etc.

You can install Bitcoin from the repository (I think it is called). I originally did it from here without problems though (not using a tarball) - http://www.distrogeeks.com/install-bitcoin-qt-ubuntu/
I had no problems on Ubunto 13.10 but imagine it would be the same on 12.04.

thanks I will check it out now and see if I can get it to install I was hoping to find a linux live cd which had no other packages on too because that would be great for a offline wallet.

[corebob]

Wouldn't trust it, if it did exist.

Which flavour of linux you using? I've not had problems on Mint, so expect all flavours Debian are stable.

Can you not just download bitcoin-0.8.6-linux.tar.gz from https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.8.6/ extract from tar.gz and run the //bitcoin-0.8.6-linux/bin/32/bitcoin-qt ?

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 but have had problems installing from the terminal. I haven't extracted the tar.gz from bitcoin.org and I guess I could try that and see if that works I don't know why it's not working in the command line because I have root access etc.

Download the tgz from here https://bitcoin.org/en/download and extract it with
$ tar xf bitcoin-0.8.6-linux.tar.gz

In the extracted directories there is one called 64 (for 64 bit systems) and one called 32 (for 32 bit systems) where you find the programs

This should work fine

[MakeBelieve]

I'm also going to be making a offline wallet so how would I go about doing this? copying the program on a usb and plugging it into the offline computer and install that may?

[Holliday]

Wouldn't trust it, if it did exist.

Which flavour of linux you using? I've not had problems on Mint, so expect all flavours Debian are stable.

Can you not just download bitcoin-0.8.6-linux.tar.gz from https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.8.6/ extract from tar.gz and run the //bitcoin-0.8.6-linux/bin/32/bitcoin-qt ?

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 but have had problems installing from the terminal. I haven't extracted the tar.gz from bitcoin.org and I guess I could try that and see if that works I don't know why it's not working in the command line because I have root access etc.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bitcoin-qt

[corebob]

I'm also going to be making a offline wallet so how would I go about doing this? copying the program on a usb and plugging it into the offline computer and install that may?

Making a offline wallet is a bit more work. I don't think bitcoin-qt is too good at that, but you can use armory

Here is a walkthrough on how to do that

http://falkvinge.net/2014/02/10/placing-your-crypto-wealth-in-cold-storage-installing-armory-on-ubuntu/

[Peter-Sloan]

I was wondering if there was a Linux live cd with Bitcoin already installed on it because I have had difficulty installing the Bitcoin client on Linux recently I don't know why or if its to do with compatability with the linux version.

I'm looking for a live cd with Bitcoin already installed to make it easier does this exist and does it work on the stable version of Linux?

I use Ubuntu 13.10 and all i had to do to get bitcoin-qt is type

apt-get install bitcoin-qt

Job done

Mission Accomplished

[Abdussamad]

I'm also going to be making a offline wallet so how would I go about doing this? copying the program on a usb and plugging it into the offline computer and install that may?

You can't use bitcoin-qt for an offline wallet. I suggest electrum. Here are the steps for debian but I imagine they will be the same for ubuntu:

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-pip python-qt4
wget https://download.electrum.org/Electrum-1.9.7.tar.gz                               #software
wget https://download.electrum.org/Electrum-1.9.7.tar.gz.asc                         #signature
wget https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/raw/master/pubkeys/ThomasV.asc #developers' gpg public keys

Then run gpg once to make it generate the default key pairs and get that over with. Press control c to exit gpg and do this:

Code:

gpg --import ThomasV.asc
gpg --verify Electrum-1.9.7.tar.gz.asc Electrum-1.9.7.tar.gz

It should now tell you "good signature" for ThomasV. There will be a warning which you can safely ignore.

gpg: Signature made Sat 11 Jan 2014 12:56:41 PM PKT using RSA key ID 7F9470E6
gpg: Good signature from "ThomasV <>"
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg:          There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
Primary key fingerprint: 6694 D8DE 7BE8 EE56 31BE  D950 2BD5 824B 7F94 70E6

Then install electrum:

Code:

sudo pip install Electrum-1.9.7.tar.gz

Now you can disconnect from the internets.

Then run it (just type electrum) and it will create a new wallet for you. Note down the seed and there's your wallet! To create a watch only wallet copy the master public key over to a USB drive for use on your regular OS install:

https://electrum.org/tutorials.html#offline-mpk