ZOIN DESKTOP WALLET INSTALLATION UBUNTU 17.04/17.10
The simplest guide to try to help the Ubuntu users install Zoin Desktop Wallet
3 min readFeb 8, 2018
STEP 1 - Download Zoin Core 0.13.0.2 Ubuntu17.zip click here
STEP 2 - Extract the file Zoin Core, rename to Zoin and change permissions
chmod 711 Zoin
STEP 3 - Open Linux terminal and write command ldd Zoin in order to show library dependencies
STEP 4 - Install all of library dependencies
- Open Linux terminal and write commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config libssl-dev libevent-dev bsdmainutils libboost-all-dev
sudo apt-get install libqt5gui5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler libqrencode-dev
STEP 5 - Install Oracle Berkeley DB 4.8.30.NC
- Download Berkeley DB 4.8.30.NC.tar.gz click here
- Open Linux terminal and write commands:
tar -xzvf db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz
cd db-4.8.30.NC/build_unix/
../dist/configure — enable-cxx
sudo make
sudo make install
Tell your system where to find db4.8:
export BDB_INCLUDE_PATH=”/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.8/include”
export BDB_LIB_PATH=”/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.8/lib”
sudo ln -s /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.8/lib/libdb_cxx-4.8.so /usr/lib/libdb_cxx-4.8.so
STEP 6 - Open the Zoin wallet program
- Open Linux terminal and write
./Zoin
- Choose where Zoin Core will store its data
- After installing and running the wallet for the first time, wait for the blockchain to fully synch.