Bitcoin Core on a Raspberry PI

[hippycoiner01]

Hi all,

Trying to install Bitcoin Core on a Raspberry PI and having some trouble.

I'm certain I did a sudo apt-get install bitcoind before and it worked fine, but I ended up reinstalling raspbian OS and now when I do sudo apt-get install bitcoind I get:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package bitcoind is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'bitcoind' has no installation candidate


Any ideas?

Thanks

P.S I want to avoid downloading source and building it as it takes too long and threw some errors before.

[hippycoiner01]

Just to add to this, I added the bitcoin repo with:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin

and now the error i get is:

 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 95, in <module>
    sp = SoftwareProperties(options=options)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 109, in __init__
    self.reload_sourceslist()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 599, in reload_sourceslist
    self.distro.get_sources(self.sourceslist)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptsources/distro.py", line 93, in get_sources
    (self.id, self.codename))
aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException: Error: could not find a distribution template for Raspbian/buster

[jackg]

I didn't think it was possible to install bitcoin core from a debian repository?

I found this guide that might be helpful: https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/how-to-compile-and-install-bitcoin-core-on-debian-wheezy/#install-some-dependencies

Either that or you can clone github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin and go to the docs folder and look at the installation notes for ubuntu/debian.

Dependency and build instructions for unix are available here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/build-unix.md
(I'd put them below but there are different configurations with or without a gui).

[BitMaxz]

It was discussed here on the forum recently the repository you use is not updated or not maintained.
You can check the last update of repository here https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/ubuntu/bitcoin
As you can see it was 72 weeks ago.

This is the thread that I'm talking about bitcoind on Ubuntu

Try to use this code below:

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:luke-jr/bitcoincore
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bitcoind

[hippycoiner01]

Thanks to everyone for all the help. I'm a bit of a Linux newbie so wasn't really sure what I was doing!

Thanks to BitMaxz, that worked a treat!

[joniboini]

Code:

wouldn't the Pi need to have a huge storage drive to hold all the [url=https://smartmixer.io/][color=black]bitcoin[/color][/url] blocks/transaction history? 

I wonder why you need to put smartmixer hyperlink subtly?

Anyway, he can use something like mSATA SSD for the storage device, so it's not a big problem.