How do I go about installing a Bitcoin daemon in CentOS Linux?

Question

I am trying to setup a Drupal e-commerce solution with a payment gateway of accepting Bitcoins during checkout, but I need a bitcoin daemon installed. How do I go about installing the Bitcoin daemon in my CentOS installation?

Is there a step-by-step guide on what I need to type to install this? It would be great if it can be installed via a package manager in CentOS. apt-get doesn't seem to work for me.

Answer 1

I host two bitcoind RPMs (i686, x86_64) on my website which will most likely work fine for you, as they're built for CentOS 6.4. Run this command to install bitcoind :

rpm -ivh http://tvdw.eu/bitcoin-0.8.1-1.el6.`uname -m`.rpm

If you want to download them manually, the files are:

i686:   http://tvdw.eu/bitcoin-0.8.1-1.el6.i686.rpm
MD5:    5be52618594a3eaded19052197c2f6ed

x86_64: http://tvdw.eu/bitcoin-0.8.1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
MD5:    49ba4acbf9744e96bf12342888bc347a

The packages are unsigned, so install these at your own risk (aka: some level of trust is required here).

[Edit] This is the bitcoin.spec file I use to build these packages :

Name:           bitcoin
Version:        0.8.1
Release:        1%{?dist}
Summary:        bitcoin

License:        GPL
URL:            http://bitcoin.org
Source0:        http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-%{version}/bitcoin-%{version}-linux.tar.gz

%description
bitcoin

%package qt
Summary:        bitcoin-qt
%description qt
bitcoin-qt


%prep
%setup -q -n bitcoin-%{version}-linux


%build


%install
mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_bindir}
%ifarch x86_64
cp -R bin/64/* %{buildroot}%{_bindir}
%endif
%ifarch i686
cp -R bin/32/* %{buildroot}%{_bindir}
%endif


%clean
rm -rf %{buildroot}


%files
%doc README COPYING
/usr/bin/bitcoind

%files qt
/usr/bin/bitcoin-qt


%changelog

There's no actual compilation involved, it just puts the files in the right locations and wraps it in a nice little RPM.

Answer 2

You can also try this setup, by another fellow StackExchange member.

Or you might want to take the easier route and use a Bitcoin Payment Gateway.

Answer 3

Don't trust just any source. People smarter than me strongly recommend using the official builds from bitcoincore.org. On CentOS, I've had success using the official snap package, and I've copied the instructions below:

yum -y install epel-release
yum -y install snapd
systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
snap install bitcoin-core

PS: Use bitcoin-core.cli and bitcoin-core.deamon as commands.

PPS: You might need to run these commands as a super user (e.g. using sudo).