Bitcoin QT Linux

Let me start by wishing you all marry Christmas and a happy new
year! I hope next year will prove to be a good year.

Bitcoin, the digital
decentralised “currency” that allow people to transfer bitcoins
between each other with minimal overhead, is a very interesting
experiment. And as I wrote a few days ago, the bitcoin situation in
Debian is about to improve a bit.
The new debian source
package (version 0.7.2-2) was uploaded yesterday, and is waiting
in the NEW queue for one
of the ftpmasters to approve the new bitcoin-qt package name.

And thanks to the great work of Jonas and the rest of the bitcoin
team in Debian, you can easily test the package in Debian Squeeze
using the following steps to get a set of working packages:

git clone bitcoin DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noupnp fakeroot debian/rules clean DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noupnp git-buildpackage --git-ignore-new You might have to install some build dependencies as well. The
list of commands should give you two packages, bitcoind and
bitcoin-qt, ready for use in a Squeeze environment. Note that the
client will download the complete set of bitcoin “blocks”, which need
around 5.6 GiB of data on my machine at the moment. Make sure your
~/.bitcoin/ directory have lots of spare room if you want to download
all the blocks. The client will warn if the disk is getting full, so
there is not really a problem if you got too little room, but you will
not be able to get all the features out of the client.

As usual, if you use bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address