Let me start by wishing you all marry Christmas and a happy new +year! I hope next year will prove to be a good year.
+ +Bitcoin, the digital +decentralised "currency" that allow people to transfer bitcoins +between each other with minimal overhead, is a very interesting +experiment. And as I wrote a few days ago, the bitcoin situation in +Debian is about to improve a bit. +The new debian source +package (version 0.7.2-2) was uploaded yesterday, and is waiting +in the NEW queue for one +of the ftpmasters to approve the new bitcoin-qt package name.
+ +And thanks to the great work of Jonas and the rest of the bitcoin +team in Debian, you can easily test the package in Debian Squeeze +using the following steps to get a set of working packages:
+ ++ ++git clone git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/bitcoin +cd bitcoin +DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noupnp fakeroot debian/rules clean +DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noupnp git-buildpackage --git-ignore-new +
You might have to install some build dependencies as well. The +list of commands should give you two packages, bitcoind and +bitcoin-qt, ready for use in a Squeeze environment. Note that the +client will download the complete set of bitcoin "blocks", which need +around 5.6 GiB of data on my machine at the moment. Make sure your +~/.bitcoin/ directory have lots of spare room if you want to download +all the blocks. The client will warn if the disk is getting full, so +there is not really a problem if you got too little room, but you will +not be able to get all the features out of the client.
+ +As usual, if you use bitcoin and want to show your support of my +activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address +15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b.
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