blog/data/2012-12-25-bitcoin-debian.txt

   1 Title: How to backport bitcoin-qt version 0.7.2-2 to Debian Squeeze
   2 Tags: english, debian, bitcoin
   3 Date: 2012-12-25 20:50
   4
   5 <p>Let me start by wishing you all marry Christmas and a happy new
   6 year!  I hope next year will prove to be a good year.</p>
   7
   8 <p>Bitcoin, the digital decentralised "currency" that allow people to
   9 transfer bitcoins between each other with minimal overhead, is a very
  10 interesting experiment.  And as I wrote a few days ago, the
  11 <a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">bitcoin</a> situation in
  12 <a href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a> is about to improve a bit.
  13 The <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/bitcoin">new debian source
  14 package</a> (version 0.7.2-2) was uploaded yesterday, and is waiting
  15 in <a href="ftp-master.debian.org/new.html">the NEW queue</A> for one
  16 of the ftpmasters to approve the new bitcoin-qt package name.</p>
  17
  18 <p>And thanks to the great work of Jonas and the rest of the bitcoin
  19 team in Debian, you can easily test the package in Debian Squeeze
  20 using the following steps to get a set of working packages:</p>
  21
  22 <blockquote><pre>
  23 git clone git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/bitcoin
  24 cd bitcoin
  25 DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noupnp fakeroot debian/rules clean
  26 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noupnp git-buildpackage --git-ignore-new
  27 </pre></blockquote>
  28
  29 <p>You might have to install some build dependencies as well.  The
  30 list of commands should give you two packages, bitcoind and
  31 bitcoin-qt, ready for use in a Squeeze environment.  Note that the
  32 client will download the complete set of bitcoin "blocks", which need
  33 around 5.6 GiB of data on my machine at the moment.  Make sure your
  34 ~/.bitcoin/ directory have lots of spare room if you want to download
  35 all the blocks.  The client will warn if the disk is getting full, so
  36 there is not really a problem if you got too little room, but you will
  37 not be able to get all the features out of the client.</p>
  38
  39 <p>As usual, if you use bitcoin and want to show your support of my
  40 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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