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      ShadowEW last edited by

      [quote name=“ChristianRiesen” post=“1759” timestamp=“1368091367”]
      Thanks for the feedback :)

      I used pico before nano was born, simply because it makes most small edits so much easier. And specially for copy pasting nano usually does the trick well.

      aptitude is standard since I think Ubuntu 12. So the guide going for Ubuntu 13 has it for sure installed, but thanks for the input, I will add it to the guide.
      [/quote]
      Just trying to help out where I can, some people don’t want to upgrade their OS due to compatibility (or lack of) issues. But, giving a once over of your guide again I really can’t see any other problems aside from aptitude. ^_^

      Edit: I know to you and I this is plain obvious, but you want want to note and inform people to substitute in their own pool/worker details. Unfortunately I’ve come to realize that not everyone is blessed with a decent or acceptable level of common sense. x:
      [code]/usr/bin/nice -5 /usr/local/cpuminer/minerd -a scrypt -t 1 -o http://pool.d2.cc:9344 -u ChristianRiesen.tutorial -p x -B -q > /dev/null
      ;;
      stop)[/code]

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        ChristianRiesen Regular Member last edited by

        I wrote a whole block about it, but I think I add another warning, thanks :)

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          ShadowEW last edited by

          [quote name=“ChristianRiesen” post=“1765” timestamp=“1368092701”]
          I wrote a whole block about it, but I think I add another warning, thanks :)
          [/quote]
          There’s many a person out there that won’t read the block text but just look at the italics and code. And just hop, skip and jump past all the ‘boring’ stuff. >.<

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            sheepson Regular Member last edited by

            Thanks! I will add this to the main ‘guide’ topic!

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              ChristianRiesen Regular Member last edited by

              [quote name=“ShadowEW” post=“1767” timestamp=“1368092829”]
              [quote author=ChristianRiesen link=topic=321.msg1765#msg1765 date=1368092701]
              I wrote a whole block about it, but I think I add another warning, thanks :)
              [/quote]
              There’s many a person out there that won’t read the block text but just look at the italics and code. And just hop, skip and jump past all the ‘boring’ stuff. >.<
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              I know. I don’t get how people can make anything work that way. I could just make a shellscript they can run and then I have lots of people mining for me ;)

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                spynappels last edited by

                Don’t forget you can use apt-get instead of aptitude if it’s not installed and you don’t want to for some reason.

                Nice guide, Ubuntu is my distro of choice too.

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                  HopeStillFlies Regular Member last edited by

                  Okay, everything is working manually but when I try doing this:

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                  chmod a+x /etc/init.d/minerd
                  cd /etc/rc2.d/
                  ln -s …/init.d/minerd S99minerd[/quote]

                  It says:

                  [quote]ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘S99minerd’: File exists[/quote]

                  Any idea what I need to do in order to get it to launch by itself every time?

                  Okay, and weird, last night it was working and showing me a hash rate but now it’s just detecting blocks. All I did was move the computer from one location to another; what’d I do?

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                    A Former User last edited by

                    Install failed. Log at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4071418/config.log

                    Any suggestions?

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                      HopeStillFlies Regular Member last edited by

                      [quote name=“jimwalton7” post=“33293” timestamp=“1383609515”]
                      Install failed. Log at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4071418/config.log

                      Any suggestions?
                      [/quote]
                      Your dropbox is 404’d to boot. Ever figure it out?

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                        A Former User last edited by

                        [quote name=“ChristianRiesen” post=“1750” timestamp=“1368090415”]
                        [tt]aptitude install make gcc m4 automake libevent-dev zlibc zlib1g-dev libjansson-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev git[/tt]
                        [/quote]

                        Great guide! I just wanted to point out though that instead of aptitude to install make gcc m4 and automake you can just:

                        [tt]apt-get install build-essential libevent-dev zlibc zlib1g-dev libjansson-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev git[/tt]

                        build-essential will install all you need for compiling

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                          HopeStillFlies Regular Member last edited by

                          Quick question for those with the linux knowhow. If you did this:

                          [code]To make it start and stop automatically, execute these commands now:

                          chmod a+x /etc/init.d/minerd
                          cd /etc/rc2.d/
                          ln -s …/init.d/minerd S99minerd[/code]

                          How do you tell it to NOT start automatically at boot?

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                            Stevenseven77 last edited by

                            First thank you very much for this write up (what is an appropriate FTC tip amount)
                            Second I am having a small issue (Linux Ubuntu)
                            Everything went very smooth except for the following:
                            zlib1g-dev This is a number 1 in front of the g? Or lowercase L? I can’t find this package
                            And Theese are my errors
                            Checking for gawk… No
                            Checking wether to enable maintainer-specific portions of makefiles…no
                            Checking wether the C compiler works…no
                            Configure error: in ‘/usr/local/cpuminer’:
                            Configure: error: c compiler cannot create executables

                            UPDATE: working and hashing Yay!!!
                            Fix: do the following
                            autoconf
                            automake
                            bison
                            build-essential
                            flex
                            gawk
                            libtool

                            You should be OK for compiling then.

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