Unfortunately 20.04 is only available in the LTS version not the prebuild version which pi requires. Does anyone know if I can run bfgminer on these newpacs? For whatever reason I can compile that.
Well just use the Raspberry OS. It's made for it after all.
BFG Miner doesn't support newpacs. They developed their own version of CGMiner to support these.
I think I am just missing some package that it requires to compile, but I just don't know which one. The packages that it lists are fairly minimum, as the compiling would error out it would give you a clue to what was missing, for example libz. I am looking for a way to figure out what might be missing but the error message is not descriptive. Is there a way to debug the compile?
If you look through this thread you will see many posts about people having trouble using Ubuntu .10 versions. The fix was always to use the LTS release. Raspbian is known to work fine and well.