Alot of linux distributions are forked from ubuntu.
so Xubuntu and Lite are basically ubuntu (lts) without the bloatware
Alright, I purchased a laptop last night. It has about 6 GB of RAM, but it’s upgradeable, so I’ll just use it in its current form until I need to add some more. I’m going to start looking into Linux today now that I’m ready. I have one question though. All my wallet.dat files were saved from a Windows computer. Will those same wallet.dat files work with Linux?
Also, in order to find the app data/roaming location on Windows to place the wallet.dat files, I need to make it so the files aren’t hidden. What is the location of the Nu/B&C/Peercoin wallet folders on Linux and is there anything special I have to do to make them visible?
if you don’t know about linux it would be a risk to use it 
i propose windows if you have experience with it.
The wallet files should be compatible as long the windows and linux binaries are compiled using the same database version. You will probably be successful using the same client version from the official website.
Your home directory in Linux will be under /home/[your username]/. When you open the file explorer it will be there by default.
The files for Nu, BCexchange, etc will be in folders in your home directory named acordingly, “.nu”, “.bcexchange”, “.ppcoin”…
They start with a dot, which means that they are hidden folders in Linux. So you will have to select the menu “View” > “View hidden files”, or simply press CTRL+H in the file browser to see them.
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You can always send the coins from the original Windows computer to an address you make in the new client on Linux, less the fees of course!
Linux has a variety of different desktop environments, such as Gnome, XFCE, LXDE, and KDE, each with their own independent development teams. When you merge these environments with Ubuntu, you get the different flavors: Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, and Kubuntu, respectively. Under the hood, they are all working the same. Only the user interface is changing. There is also a popular Debian/Ubuntu derivative called Linux Mint that I don’t have much experience with, but the differences involve mostly bells and whistles as well as the default software packages.
Just like crypto-currency, there are probably way too many choices and options available in Linux, but this is the natural consequence of open-source software.
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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?
There might have been some other errors. Try to open the folder in your terminal and run nu with the command “./nu”, see if any text comes up.
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)."
Edit: Same thing for Nu and Peerunity.
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:
~/Desktop/bcexchange-3.0.1-linux-gitian/bin/32/bcexchange
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.
wget https://nubits.com/sites/default/files/assets/nu-2.0.2-linux-gitian.zip && unzip nu-2.0.2-linux-gitian.zip && chmod +x bin/64/nu && ./bin/64/nu
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…
sentinelrv@sentinelrv-X751LAB:~$ wget https://nubits.com/sites/default/files/assets/nu-2.0.2-linux-gitian.zip && unzip nu-2.0.2-linux-gitian.zip && chmod +x bin/64/nu && ./bin/64/nu
–2015-11-17 14:27:42-- https://nubits.com/sites/default/files/assets/nu-2.0.2-linux-gitian.zip
Resolving nubits.com (nubits.com)… 104.25.215.10, 104.25.214.10
Connecting to nubits.com (nubits.com)|104.25.215.10|:443… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 18267518 (17M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘nu-2.0.2-linux-gitian.zip’
100%[======================================>] 18,267,518 1.42MB/s in 12s
2015-11-17 14:27:55 (1.41 MB/s) - ‘nu-2.0.2-linux-gitian.zip’ saved [18267518/18267518]
Archive: nu-2.0.2-linux-gitian.zip
inflating: COPYING
inflating: README
creating: bin/
creating: bin/32/
inflating: bin/32/nud
inflating: bin/32/nu
creating: bin/64/
inflating: bin/64/nud
inflating: bin/64/nu
creating: src/
inflating: src/nubit.tar.gz
./bin/64/nu: error while loading shared libraries: libQtGui.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Should I try installing a different version of Linux or does that error at the end give you some clue as to what’s wrong?
That is some progress, the program is complaining about some dependencies. Your past problems are solved.
Run sudo apt-get install libqtgui4 to solve that one. It installs the files required to run the GUI
You will probably need a few more dependencies, run ldd bin/64/nu and paste the output here so we can solve it faster.
If I paste that into the terminal it brings up the following…
sentinelrv@sentinelrv-X751LAB:~$ sudo apt-get install libqtgui4
[sudo] password for sentinelrv:
It won’t let me type anything in after that though. Is it asking me for the login password for the computer?
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.
Ok, that seemed to work. Here is what came up. I had to type y at one point so it would continue…
sentinelrv@sentinelrv-X751LAB:~$ sudo apt-get install libqtgui4
[sudo] password for sentinelrv:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
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libaudio2 libmysqlclient18 libqt4-declarative libqt4-network libqt4-script
libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-mysql libqt4-xml libqt4-xmlpatterns libqtcore4
libqtdbus4 mysql-common qtcore4-l10n
Suggested packages:
nas libqt4-declarative-folderlistmodel libqt4-declarative-gestures
libqt4-declarative-particles libqt4-declarative-shaders qt4-qmlviewer
libqt4-dev libicu48 qt4-qtconfig
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libaudio2 libmysqlclient18 libqt4-declarative libqt4-network libqt4-script
libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-mysql libqt4-xml libqt4-xmlpatterns libqtcore4
libqtdbus4 libqtgui4 mysql-common qtcore4-l10n
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I’m going to go on to the 2nd part in your post if that looks ok.
Yes that worked as expected, lets see what ldd bin/64/nu tells us.
Here you go…
sentinelrv@sentinelrv-X751LAB:~$ ldd bin/64/nu
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff25be8000)
libQtGui.so.4 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtGui.so.4 (0x00007f6bcacd5000)
libQtCore.so.4 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4 (0x00007f6bca7f0000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f6bca5d2000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f6bca2ce000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f6bc9fc8000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f6bc9db2000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f6bc99ed000)
libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x00007f6bc97b1000)
libaudio.so.2 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libaudio.so.2 (0x00007f6bc9599000)
libglib-2.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f6bc9291000)
libpng12.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng12.so.0 (0x00007f6bc906b000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f6bc8e52000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007f6bc8baf000)
libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f6bc895e000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSM.so.6 (0x00007f6bc8756000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libICE.so.6 (0x00007f6bc853a000)
libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXi.so.6 (0x00007f6bc832a000)
libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXrender.so.1 (0x00007f6bc8120000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXext.so.6 (0x00007f6bc7f0e000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 (0x00007f6bc7bd9000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f6bc79d5000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f6bc77cd000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f6bcb988000)
libexpat.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1 (0x00007f6bc75a3000)
libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXt.so.6 (0x00007f6bc733d000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 (0x00007f6bc7139000)
libpcre.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3 (0x00007f6bc6efb000)
libffi.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6 (0x00007f6bc6cf3000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f6bc6aee000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f6bc68cf000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007f6bc66c9000)