ZOIN DESKTOP WALLET INSTALLATION UBUNTU 17.04/17.10

The simplest guide to try to help the Ubuntu users install Zoin Desktop Wallet

Friedrich Nietzsche
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

  • 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.

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