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How to install bitcoind on Ubuntu 20?

I am having the trouble with installation of bitcoind on Ubuntu v20 VPS system. How i try to make it done with official tutorial:

"If you use Ubuntu, you don’t need to compile bitcoind and bitcoin-cli from source. You can simply add the official Bitcoin PPA."

This is my commands:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bitcoind

When i try to add repository I am getting this funny error message and when i proceed with enter the system seems to be done with it but actually it does not add repository!!

When i type this command I got this message : Command : sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin Error:

root@vultr:~# sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin NOT MAINTAINED. The OS-library linking packages here had a series of issues.

PLEASE DOWNLOAD DIRECTLY FROM bitcoincore.org (and verify the signatures of said files).

IF YOU WANT AUTO-UPDATES, please see the officially-maintained snap package - https://github.com/bitcoin-core/packaging/tree/master/snap More info: https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/ubuntu/bitcoin Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel adding it.

Then when i press Enter to continue i am getting this message:

Ign:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/bitcoin/bitcoin/ubuntu focal InRelease
Err:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/bitcoin/bitcoin/ubuntu focal Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80]
Hit:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease [107 kB]
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease [98.3 kB]
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease [107 kB]
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/bitcoin/bitcoin/ubuntu focal Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

And after that when i think everything is good and when i run the command sudo apt-get update

and when update is done i try to push command : sudo apt-get install bitcoind

and i get this error message:

root@vultr:~# sudo apt-get install bitcoind
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package bitcoind
root@vultr:~#

Please point me to solution or tell me where I am making mistake this is the biggest problem I ever saw till now. I am not good with ubuntu and vps and this seem impossible to me, Thank you so much!

Solution

  • I had to go to the bitcoin.org website and find the link of the last tar.gz bitcoin.

    For my example i did it like this: type in the ubuntu

    wget https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.20.0/bitcoin-0.20.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz

    then i unpack my tar.gz

    tar -xvf bitcoin-0.20.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz

    then i go to the bitcoin folder and move the files to /usr/local/bin

    and then i simply start bitcoind with

    bitcoind -daemon

    to run it in the background :)

    hope this helps :)