How to install bitcoin 0.8.0 on debian wheezy amd64

NOTE: The steps are mostly the same as for those in our previous article «How to install bitcoin 0.8.0 on debian squeeze amd64»

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While it is a bit tedious to install bitcoind 0.8.0 on Debian Wheezy, improvements in this version make it worth the work, performance is far superior to previous versions and I/O disk have been significantly reduced.
Now let’s start with the installation.

The sources.list is the standard and should look like.

root@x49:/# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# 

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64 CD Binary-1 20130304-04:56]/ wheezy main

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib

deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
root@x49:/# 

Then add the repository sources of bitcoin for Ubuntu Precise Pangolin.

Create the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bitcoin.list with the following content

root@x49:/# cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bitcoin.list

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bitcoin/bitcoin/ubuntu precise main

root@x49:/# 

Then add the key in apt

root@x49:/# gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys D46F45428842CE5E
gpg: directory `/root/.gnupg' created
gpg: new configuration file `/root/.gnupg/gpg.conf' created
gpg: WARNING: options in `/root/.gnupg/gpg.conf' are not yet active during this run
gpg: keyring `/root/.gnupg/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 8842CE5E from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net
gpg: /root/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 8842CE5E: public key "Launchpad PPA for Bitcoin" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
root@x49:/# gpg --export --armor D46F45428842CE5E | apt-key add --
OK
root@x49:/# 

We update the repositories

apt-get update

Then install the following packages dpkg-dev, qt4-qmake, libdb5.1++-dev, libqt4-dev, libqrencode-dev, libminiupnpc-dev, libboost-test1.49-dev, zlib1g, lib32z1, libc6-i386, debhelper, devscripts, bash-completion, libboost-system-dev, libssl-dev, pkg-config, libboost-filesystem-dev, libboost-program-options-dev, libboost-thread-dev, libboost-test-dev

apt-get install dpkg-dev qt4-qmake libdb5.1++-dev libqt4-dev libqrencode-dev libminiupnpc-dev libboost-test1.49-dev zlib1g lib32z1 libc6-i386 debhelper devscripts bash-completion libboost-system-dev libssl-dev pkg-config libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-test-dev

Then we create the directory /usr/src/bitcoin and enter in, from there proceed to download the source package of bitcoin

mkdir -p /usr/src/bitcoin
cd /usr/src/bitcoin
apt-get source bitcoin

We entered the bitcoin-0.8.0 directory

cd bitcoin-0.8.0

Then edit the file «debian/changelog» and add these 6 lines (this is not really necessary is for the files .deb take the wheezy chain name instead of precise)

bitcoin (0.8.0-wheezy1) wheezy; urgency=low

  * Mark for wheezy.

 -- Matt Corallo <matt@bluematt.me>  Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:24:00 -0500
 

Then proceed to the compilation with the following command (this may take some time, between 10 and 30 minutes, even more in some cases)

./debian/rules clean
./debian/rules binary

Once we have finished compiling, two packages in top directory. bitcoind and bitcoin-qt, we will use the bitcoind.
We proceed to install

cd ..
root@x49:/usr/src/bitcoin# dpkg -i bitcoind_0.8.0-wheezy1_amd64.deb 
Selecting previously unselected package bitcoind.
(Reading database ... 51985 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking bitcoind (from bitcoind_0.8.0-wheezy1_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up bitcoind (0.8.0-wheezy1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
root@x49:/usr/src/bitcoin# 

Usually we have it installed in a future article we will see how to configure it to start automatically in the background at startup.