Re: Am I wasting my time mining for BitCoins?

Ok the ubuntu instructions say to

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sudo apt-get install python-pyopencl subversion
wget http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/bitcoin/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.3.19/bitcoin-0.3.19-linux.tar.gz
tar xvf bitcoin-0.3.19-linux.tar.gz
svn checkout http://svn.json-rpc.org/trunk/python-jsonrpc
cd python-jsonrpc/
sudo python setup.py install
cd ..
mkdir .bitcoin
echo "rpcuser=un" > .bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
echo "rpcpassword=pw" >> .bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/m0mchil/poclbm/raw/master/BitcoinMiner.cl
wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/m0mchil/poclbm/raw/master/BitcoinMiner.py
wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/m0mchil/poclbm/raw/master/poclbm.py
~/bitcoin-0.3.19/bin/64/bitcoin -server&
python poclbm.py -d 0 --user un --pass pw

but I have already DL and extracted bitcoin-0.3.19-linux.tar.gz so why do Ineed to do it agin, actually did 3.20 but who is counting

I have a setup .py folder but as i said befor it is in the poclbm-mod.03.24.2011/sources/ folder

and it looks like this code it to make a .bitcoin folder I already have on in my home folder why do I want another? and as I said and asked before have no "bitcoin.conf" so do I need to create one with kwrite and if so what do i put in it?

myusername=un
mypassword=pw

or

rpcuser=myusername
rpcpassword=mypassword

the wged lines seem to be to Dl what I already have so why would I re DL what is already on my drive?

python poclbm.py -d 0 --user un --pass pw

confuses me because if I am putting in the user in pass why do I need to create the .config file. This is the user and pass for the pool account right?

when I try to run "sudo python setup.py install"
it asks me for a password, I put in the pass for my user account. Then it says:

myusername is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

Should I take the "sudo" off? or do I need to run this a root? I am sure I am doing something simple wrong but no clue what?