Ubuntu (Debian) testers wanted

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nodemaster
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Ubuntu (Debian) testers wanted

Post by nodemaster »

I forked vinceds tree and have added debian/rules to the src directory. With this definitions you are now able to use dpkg-buildpackage in order to build an Ubuntu package. In theory Debian packages should work as well but it is untested. I have successfully builded on Lucid and Natty (both amd64 and i386). The Debian package installs namecoind as a service. You have to adapt /etc/namecoind/namecoin.conf to your needs and do a /etc/init.d/namecoind restart after installation. The rest should work out of the box.

If you are using Ubuntu but don't want to build the packages on your own, you might want to download a precompiled package (WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY) here:

http://www.wuala.com/nodemaster/binarie ... nd/Ubuntu/

Any feedback is welcome. It's been quite a while since I have packaged my last Debian binary and I guess it needs some tuning, so if you have some ideas on how to improve it please let me know. Furthermore if you are successful building it on any other Debian derivate, please let me know as well.

Edit:

Here is the fork: https://github.com/nodemaster/namecoin
And the README.Debian: https://github.com/nodemaster/namecoin/ ... DME.Debian
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Re: Ubuntu (Debian) testers wanted

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Good work !

I've tested the 64bits versions on Debian 6 :
- version for ubuntu 10.04 : it works
- version for ubuntu 11.04 : it doesn't work (libstdc++6 v4.5 required and not available on debian)

ps : for people interested in using the deb package, note that the directory of the wallet is /var/namecoind, so you need to copy your wallet here.
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nodemaster
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Re: Ubuntu (Debian) testers wanted

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khal wrote: ps : for people interested in using the deb package, note that the directory of the wallet is /var/namecoind, so you need to copy your wallet here.
Right, but if you test with your valuable wallet please have a backup at hand because for example an aptitude remove namecoind of the package definitely will remove the entire folder including the wallet.dat ;)

It still has rudimentary update functionality. But I'm working on it. So like always: "Don't forget to do your backups!"

BTW I guess I'll implement

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/etc/init.d/namecoind backup
which triggers "namecoind backupwallet" and rotates it with timestamp. Might come in handy :lol:
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