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Hello fellow bitcoiners,
I would like to install lightning over Bitcoin core - I already have a full node. But every guide I follow ends up with a broken build or some issue preventing to finish the install of lightning. Did you have success with a good howto by any chance? I would preciate if someone could post a proven working install howto.
Thank you very much, /cr!?ptal
You can do
sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository -u ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
sudo add-apt-repository -u ppa:lightningnetwork/ppa
sudo apt-get install bitcoind lightningd
If you don't want to add external repositories you can flollow the clightning docs from https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/blob/master/doc/INSTALL.md they worked perfectly last time I checked and are copied here for your convenience.
You will need several development libraries:
For actually doing development and running the tests, you will also need:
You will also need a version of bitcoind with segregated witness and estimatesmartfee economical node, such as the 0.16 or above.
OS version: Ubuntu 15.10 or above
Get dependencies:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y \
autoconf automake build-essential git libtool libgmp-dev \
libsqlite3-dev python python3 python3-mako net-tools zlib1g-dev libsodium-dev \
git gettext
Clone lightning:
git clone https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning.git
cd lightning
For development or running tests, get additional dependencies:
sudo apt-get install -y valgrind python3-pip libpq-dev
sudo pip3 install -r tests/requirements.txt -r doc/requirements.txt
Build lightning:
./configure
make
sudo make install
Running lightning:
bitcoind --datadir=<path_to_blockchain> && ./lightningd/lightningd && ./cli/lightning-cli help
Note: You may need to include testnet=1 in bitcoin.conf
