Quote from: Katherine_Alicia on Today at 10:57:16 AM

I`v no idea, I did find a bitcoin-qt in my downloads directory in the BIN folder along with others including the bitcoind (which is running fine), I tried running the Bitcoin-qt binary and it does nothing!? I tried opening it with other things and those just gave me errors.
it just doesn`t seem to want to run? and non of the others do either, it`s only bitcoind that works?

I'm not sure if you can start bitcoin-qt while already running bitcoind. That's why I suggested you kill it first.

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closing the lid on my laptop turns the wifi off

Just Wifi, or does it put the laptop in sleep mode? Either way, that's a power managent setting.

Quote from: Katherine_Alicia on Today at 11:21:41 AM

The original TarGZ thing that went into the Download drawer Has all the Bitcoin-qt and many other files, but I didn`t see an Install thing anywhere so I ignored it.

You need to extract the tarball somewhere on your disk, then you can run the binaries.

Quote from: Katherine_Alicia on Today at 08:42:41 AM

~ assume you already know the basics and I don`t, so they`re all way over my head!

Quote from: Katherine_Alicia on Today at 09:53:41 AM

I don`t even understand what half of the instructions mean!

Quote from: Katherine_Alicia on Today at 11:21:41 AM

so I`m even more confused now! LOL

What are you trying to accomplish? What made you choose Ubuntu if you have no Linux experience?