How do you install blackcoin on a headless server or VPS?

Question

Could somebody tell me the commands to get blackcoin installed over the terminal?

Answer 1

You may need to slightly modify the following steps for your needs:

1. ssh or log into the machine

2. Make sure that git is installed.

   sudo apt-get install git

3. Clone the github repo

   git clone https://github.com/rat4/blackcoin.git

4. Follow the instructions from the installation documentation which are:

5. Install the dependencies.

   sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libdb++-dev libboost-all-dev libqrencode-dev

6. Run the makefile which will compile the program from the source we just downloaded.

   cd blackcoin/src make -f makefile.unix

7. Run the newly created binary.

   ./blackcoind

There is also a #blackcoin irc channel on freenode where there are friendly blackcoiners happy to walk you through installation.