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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Upgrading client help needed with debian
by
Dare
on 08/07/2014, 17:56:13 UTC
I'm upgrading from Bitcoin-qt 8.6, which runs fine as an executable on my Debian box.

I've extracted 0.9.2.1 to a different folder, which contains no executable.

Can someone please tell me the next step?

Thanks.


Check the bin/32 or bin/64 folder, depending on your computer architecture (32-bit vs. 64-bit).

Add the Bitcoin Ubuntu PPA repository in your Ubuntu
Code:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
Update package lists
Code:
sudo apt-get update
Install bitcoin-qt
Code:
sudo apt-get install bitcoin-qt

Just copy and past the code into terminal and you should have the latest version of bitcoin-qt.

If you prefer not to use a PPA you can download the latest linux client from here:http://bitcoin.org/en/download.  Just decompress the .tgz file and you've got the latest version of bitcoin-qt.*
*Edited to make relevant.

AFAIK, PPAs don't work on Debian without some extra work, which may or may not be worth it.