Quote from: eric7 on April 15, 2013, 04:00:22 AM

I'd recommend you build bitcoind from source and run its tests. You can find links to the latest release here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin

If you really don't want to install it from source, you can also run apt-get update; apt-get install bitcoind.

Once you do that, you should run bitcoind securely in the background (*do not* allow it to listen for connections coming from the Internet-- only from your own machine or network). Then you can communicate with it via the JSON RPC, allowing you to interact with the rest of the Bitcoin network.

There's an init.d script here that you can use, so you don't have to manually pass in the correct arguments each time and prepare the daemon to run: https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=965.0

The first time you run bitcoind, you'll notice that there's no output. This is normal as bitcoind attempts to download blocks from the network. It may take a while. Once your node is fully synced with the rest of the network, you'll be able to start using it.

Good luck!

It appears that our host does not allow root access. All I have access to are things in my directory: /home/myusername

Is it possible to set it up without root?