RE: [Guide] Build Decent and start mining from scratch on Ubuntu 16.04 (for dummies)

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[Guide] Build Decent and start mining from scratch on Ubuntu 16.04 (for dummies)

in decent •  7 years ago 

Welcome to Steem @fad88 :)

Couple notes after skimming:

Should remove libboost-all-dev from the apt-get install list. You're installing a newer version of Boost right after, and it's pretty big.

I think this step needs sudo privileges: ./b2 install. It will also go faster using the -j flag followed by the number of logical cores you'd like to use.

Under section 2, building, there needs to be a step of git checkout [current version release tag] before the git submodule update step.

Remove the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug from the cmake step unless you want to debug. It increases load and time while syncing and replaying, among other things.

Transfer at least 0.5 DCT to your new account to be able to create a miner.

A minerwitness account should have a bit more balance to do a few update_miners

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sudo is only necessary when installing into administrative directories such as /etc or /usr

In this case it's more preferred to use ./bootstrap --prefix=/path/to/install/directory then ./b2 -j[1-4] I recommend setting the processor concurrency to 2 more than the # of logical cores, so if you have 4 then set it to 6, I've cut compiling times down by 15-30 mins.

No need to instruct installing nano as that's a default package in Ubuntu 16.04+