Setting up Bitcoin Core on ubuntu 16.04

I’m just following Andreas bitcoin book on installing bitcoin. Some additional steps are required if using ubuntu 16.04. Note these steps also probably also apply to litecoin if you were going to be using that instead of bitcoin.

First go to github and clone this https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git

into a directory e.g

mkdir bitcoin
cd bitcoin
git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git

Check the git tag

git tag
git checkout v0.15.1
git status

Now run autogen

./autogen.sh

I get some errors from this, mainly about Libtool library used but ‘LIBTOOL’ is undefined. Try this:

sudo apt-get install libtool

Autogen should now work.

Now run (note you can disable features with configure see help)

./configure

This time i get an error libdb_cxx headers missing, Bitcoin Core requires this library for wallet functionality.

Try this:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev

Now try configure again (./configure). This time i get this error :

error: No working boost sleep implementation found.

try this:

sudo apt-get install libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-chrono-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-thread-dev

Now try to configure again (./configure). This time i get this error:

error: libevent not found

try this:

sudo apt-get install libevent-dev

This time ./configure should work.

now run

make

this might take a while. Finally do

sudo make install