Ok, I was able to wipe Windows 10 and get Xubuntu installed, but I’ve run into a slight problem. I downloaded all the Linux versions of Peercoin, Nu and B&C. I unzipped them and went to the 64 bit versions where I had two choices, Nu and Nud, etc… I tried installing all three wallets, but a box pops up and it says (Open Nu and other files of type “executable” with:) and then it lets me choose from a list of programs. Is there a reason why it won’t install on Linux like it usually does with Windows?
Edit: It seems with the Windows download there are three options, Nu, Nud and Nu-2.0.2-win-setup. The Linux download only has the first two options and not the 3rd setup option. Is this normal?
As previously mentioned Linux have different flavors, distributing a installer for every one would be endless, so instead only the binary is distributed.
As you may already know the files with the final “d” are daemons, same as Windows, and they will run without GUI.
You are interested in the ones without the d.
Files by default don’t have the executable permission, so that is why ‘open files of type “executable” with:…’ warning shows up.
Right click the file, select Properties → Permisions and tick Allow execution of the file as a program.
Then try to run it again
Ok, I checked that box with all 3 files. After doing so I tried double clicking on the icon or right clicking and hitting the execute option, but neither do anything. Nothing seems to happen at all when I do this. Just to go over some of the details, the laptop I’m using is 64 bit, so I went into the 64 bit folders. I’m doing this with Nu and not Nud. It only says Nu and not Nu.exe. I already checked the box. I also unzipped the 3 folders to the desktop. I’m not sure if it matters where I try to open them at. Is there something I may have missed?
You should be able to run 32-bit nu on a 64-bit box. Doesn’t matter where the folder was unzipped, desktop is fine. Navigate to bin/32/ and double-click on nu. A pop-up dialog should appear that says Execute. Click on that and you’ll start the program. Be patient, as it will take a while to download the blockchain, but eventually a GUI will show up.
Ok, when I try to open the 64 bit version nothing happens, but when I try to open the 32 bit version I at least get an error message. First I checked box like ttutdxh suggested. Then when I tried to open it I got the following error…
"Failed to execute file “bcexchange”.
Failed to execute child process “/home/sentinelrv/Desktop/bcexchange-3.0.1-linux-gitian/bin/32/bcexchange” (No such file or directory)."
Browse to the folder where the 32-bit binary for bcexchange is. (I assume you are using Thunar as your File Manager? That’s the default in Xubuntu.) You should see two executable files: bcexchanged and bcexchange with sizes 7.2 Mb and 9.3 Mb, respectively. Right-click on bcexchange and select Execute.
If that still doesn’t work, open a terminal in the Accessories menu. Paste in the following at the command line:
Copy “nu” file to the desktop and try to run it from there.
Edit: The “(No such file or directory)” error means that the system could not read that file, so either the read permissions are turned off for the binary or the parent folders.
If nothing above works, CTRL + ALT + T, paste this and press enter, should do all the work for you in one step.
Bah…nothing worked. I copied exactly what you wrote there and it gave me an error. I tried wiping the computer again and reinstalling Xubuntu, but the same thing happened. When I paste the text above in the terminal and hit enter I get the following…
Yes, it is asking you for your password. It does not show the characters you input but they are there (is a security measure). Just press enter at the end.
The Nu client came up and is currently downloading the blockchain.
Now at the end there after installing all the dependencies could I have just double clicked on the Nu icon instead of typing it into the terminal to run the client?
Also, in order to get Peercoin and B&C to run, I would just have to take the following commands and change the download link, correct?
You should be able to run the binary clicking on it, but previously you had some kind of permission issue I don’t get.
For Peercoin and B&C the steps would be similar.
In that command you can find && symbol which is essentially ‘also do this if no errors are found’. So it really runs 4 things sequentially.
wget https://nubits.com/sites/default/files/assets/nu-2.0.2-linux-gitian.zip; wget downloads the link you pass as argument.
unzip nu-2.0.2-linux-gitian.zip; unzip decompress the downloaded file
chmod +x bin/64/nu; chmod changes the permissions of a file and “+x” adds the executable permission.
./bin/64/nu; the “./” at the beginning is the way of launching binaries in linux
So yes, changing the download link should work for the other ones, but you should also change the name of the file to unzip, the folder/file to set the executable permission, and the path and name to launch it.
Try to modify that commands and run them because now you can understand there is not such thing as a “universal command” for doing something.
Now that the dependency problem is solved, shouldn’t he try executing the already downloaded and unzipped binaries for B&C and Peercoin? Why start the process from scratch?
Also, these dependencies were already in Xubuntu, but uninstalled, correct? I don’t see where it downloaded them, so I assume they were already apart of the OS. I just had to activate them first.
