Need some help with the bitcoin app, please...
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Ok folks, I am new to linux and I am happy to learn (I want to and have to learn). I went to synaptics manager and made an installation of the bitcoin wallet but the app says is not up to date. Which is the correct way to install apps on Trisquel ? I am sorry for being a newbie but everyone has to start from somewhere. Thanks, I strongly appreciate your efforts in assisting me.
actually I want to correct myself, new to GNU / Linux * (giving the correct credits is essential in the healthy evolvement of free material)
The updated software is here: http://bitcoin.org/en/download
You can choose the tgz and run the bitcoin-qt or the PPA - Trisquel 6.0 is based on Ubuntu Precise 12.04.
Done and went to "Add / Remove Apps" after that and got an error message which I tried to copy but something went wrong and I can't paste it... something about the index of the repository... the point is that I can't find the bitcoin client there now :/ What to do ? I want to learn to do it with the PPA way.
I am a member!
To add the ppa, using the terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
sudo apt-get update
Now, you should be able to find bitcoin-qt using synaptic or the
add-remove applet.
HTH,
Dave
Done and it still won't appear on "Add/Remove Applications" :/ I don't know if this is important but I tried to paste the two lines to the terminal and it would copy and execute automatically only the first.
The Add/Remove only appears the applications from the Trisquel official repositories. PPA is other repository (not Trisquel).
Do this in Terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T): sudo apt-get install bitcoin-qt
Or open System Settings > Synaptic Package Manager and search "bitcoin".
Error initializing database environment /home/andreas/.bitcoin! To recover, BACKUP THAT DIRECTORY, then remove everything from it except for wallet.dat.
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I am trying to go to that location and I get an error... How do I locate the bitcoin files in order to delete them as it instructs ? Any other solution, like a terminal command ?
On 30/05/13 08:04, antarta wrote:
> Error initializing database environment /home/andreas/.bitcoin! To
> recover, BACKUP THAT DIRECTORY, then remove everything from it except
> for wallet.dat.
>
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> I am trying to go to that location and I get an error... How do I
> locate the bitcoin files in order to delete them as it instructs ?
> Any other solution, like a terminal command ?
>
You can go into your Home directory in Nautilus and press CTRL+H to
temporarily view the hidden files and directories.
Andrew.
How do I do that ?
UPDATE: Found it ! (CTRL + H) Thank you so much for the help guys, it appears to work properly now. :D
On 30/05/13 19:26, antarta wrote:
> How do I do that ?
Well, the easiest way to open the .bitcoin folder is to press ALT+F2 (it
should come up with a "Run Application" window) and type in:
nautlius .bitcoin
Then right-click the wallet.dat file, click "Copy to" and click "Home".
Then press ALT+Up to enter your Home directory. Press CTRL+H to view
the hidden files. Find the .bitcoin directory and delete it using the
Delete key. (Keep this window open in the background for the next step).
Then open Bitcoin up using the Applications Menu, and once it loads
CLOSE it by pressing CTRL+q (or File > Exit). This will recreate a new
.bitcoin folder for you.
Go back to the window you were using before, find wallet.dat,
right-click it and click "Cut". Then find the .bitcoin folder,
right-click it and click "Paste". If it asks you to override another
wallet.dat file, choose "Replace".
Finally, you can close that window and open up Bitcoin again and
everything should work as it normally would. :-)
--
Andrew Roffey
OpenPGP fingerprint: F9E6 E6C4 0080 85F4 0E30 B0D9 7F7B DC7F 9657 B073
Thanks !
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