How to build STEEM and mine on Ubuntu LTS

in #steem • 8 years ago

I've been seeing a lot of posts about building from source and mining STEEM, so naturally I thought I'd shared my build script so you can get started easily.

Here goes:

read -p "Enter your private key: " WIFPRIVATEKEY;

read -p "Enter your account name: " ACCOUNTNAME;

export BOOST_ROOT=$HOME/opt/boost_1_57_0
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install autotools-dev build-essential \
                     g++ libbz2-dev libicu-dev python-dev
wget -c 'http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.57.0/boost_1_57_0.tar.bz2/download'\
     -O boost_1_57_0.tar.bz2
sha256sum boost_1_57_0.tar.bz2
# "910c8c022a33ccec7f088bd65d4f14b466588dda94ba2124e78b8c57db264967"
tar xjf boost_1_57_0.tar.bz2
cd boost_1_57_0/
./bootstrap.sh "--prefix=$BOOST_ROOT"
./b2 install

cd ..
git clone https://github.com/steemit/steem
cd steem
cmake -DBOOST_ROOT="$BOOST_ROOT"
make

./steemd --miner=["$ACCOUNTNAME","$WIFPRIVATEKEY"] --witness="$ACCOUNTNAME" --seed-node="52.38.66.234:2001"

Just save the above script in buildsteem.shand type chmod +x buildsteem.sh followed by ./buildsteem.sh in your terminal.

You will need to run this with a user that's able to do sudo and provide your password once the script begins.

Note that this may take a while, so you might as well grab a book or take a nap while it builds. If you've configured it correctly you'll be mining in no time.

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     7 years ago (edited)

    Hey @andreicon can you help I keep getting an error "Unable to find boost libraries" when I run this command to build steem;

    cmake -DBOOST_ROOT="$BOOST_ROOT" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .
    make

    I have the library root and dir set in my .bashrc file for the environment variables but I am still getting this error.

    export BOOST_ROOT=$HOME/boost_1_60_0
    export BOOST_LIBRARYDIR=$HOME/boost_1_60_0/lib

    can you help here, do I need to set some more environment variable?

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       7 years ago 

      I haven't been around on steemit lately, but i'll try to post a new, updated tutorial.
      What i suspect is happening is you're downloading boost_1_57_0.tar.bz2 and extracting it to boost_1_57_0 but then setting the BOOST_ROOT variable to boost_1_60_0. If you could try to correct that to match the name of the archive you're extracting it should work.

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