Installing Ethereum on Ubuntu 12.04

machinery

Hello all,

I am trying to follow the instructions here: https://github.com/ethereum/cpp-ethereum/wiki/Building on a Ubuntu 12.04 machine.

When I run the following command:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libgmp-dev libgmp3-dev libcrypto++-dev \
git cmake libboost1.53-all-dev automake libtool libleveldb-dev yasm unzip libminiupnpc-dev \
qtbase5-dev qt5-default

I get the following error:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... 50%
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libboost1.53-all-dev
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libboost1.53-all-dev'

I am pretty new to linux, but after looking around a bit I thought maybe libboost1.53 was for ubuntu 13.10 only, so I tried the same code but with libboost1.48. This time I got a different error:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package qtbase5-dev
E: Unable to locate package qt5-default

Are these errors because the instructions are highly specific to ubuntu 13.10 or something else? And a slightly different question: If I want to use the ethereum client as smoothly as possible, and keep up to date on it as much as possible, should I switch to ubuntu 13.10? (Since it seems developers are testing everything out for this OS)

comtechnet

Per the install doc - looks like minimum Ubuntu level is 13.04
I did 13.10 with little/no problems - FYI

jjj

OP check this too: http://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/203/how-to-install-ethereum-on-ubuntu-12-04#latest

cisary

@comtechnet I installed whole go language by sudo apt-get install golang but now I get:

[email protected]:~/go/pkg/linux_amd64/github.com# go-ethereum
go-ethereum: command not found

cisary

I've got ubuntu 13.10 but it should be same..

comtechnet

@jjj link not found?

kershy

works fine here.
The link from @machinery is now gone and should be: https://github.com/ethereum/cpp-ethereum/wiki/Build-Instructions

Bunker

I'm new to coding when code on the git is updated I need to reinstall a new build ? How I can see If I'm updated? Thank you
Bunker

kershy

go to the /cpp-ethereum directory and type: git pull
That should download the latest source.

After that... follow the rest of the steps:

cd ../cpp-ethereum-build
cmake ../cpp-ethereum -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
make