Ubuntu18.04 Installing the Bitcoin client

First, download
There are two ways to install: installation package and source code

Second, installation
1. Installation through the installation package
Download Windows,mac OS in Https://bitcoin.org/en/download
X,linux the corresponding installation package. The installation process is relatively simple, not to repeat.

2. Compile and install by source code
Download the source code in Https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin, you can use Git
Clone command or download the ZIP package directly.

After downloading the source has a lot of readme.md documents, before installation can read the following main directory of the README.MD. Then the doc/build-unix.md inside is the installation instructions, mainly said the installation steps and the required dependencies. Mac
OS and Windows reference build-osx.md and BUILD-WINDOWS.MD.

Compilation process (refer to BUILD-UNIX.MD):
Installation dependencies:

sudoApt-getInstallBuild-essential Libtool Autotools-dev AutomakePkg-configLibssl-dev libevent-Dev bsdmainutils python3sudoApt-getInstalllibboost-all-DevsudoApt-getInstallsoftware-properties-CommonsudoAdd-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/Bitcoinsudoapt-Get updatesudoApt-getInstallLIBDB4.8-dev LIBDB4.8++-desudoApt-getInstalllibminiupnpc-DevsudoApt-getInstalllibzmq3-DevsudoApt-getInstallLibqt5gui5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compilersudoApt-getInstallLibqrencode-dev

To start compiling:

./autogen. SH . /Configuremakesudomadeinstall     //  If you don't use sudo to report insufficient permissions 

Verify that the installation is successful:

which bitcoind      //  should output/usr/local/bin/bitcoindwhich bitcoin-cli      //  should output/USR/LOCAL/BIN/BITCOIN-CLI

Three, open

Bitcoin-qt

Open the interface as follows, the first time to open to download all the chunks, it told me to download three days ... The process of learning is painful, slowly waiting ...

Install the Bitcoin client under Ubuntu18.04