[Guide] CPU mining using Linux (Ubuntu)

ShadowEW

[quote name=“ChristianRiesen” post=“1765” timestamp=“1368092701”]
I wrote a whole block about it, but I think I add another warning, thanks :)
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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. >.<

sheepson

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

ChristianRiesen

[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 :)
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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 ;)

spynappels

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.

HopeStillFlies

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 â€˜S99minerdâ€™: 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?

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

Any suggestions?

HopeStillFlies

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

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

[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]
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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

HopeStillFlies

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?

Stevenseven77

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.