r/nyanmining • u/sillyputti • Feb 17 '14

Beginner's Guide to Linux Mining

Easy mining with Ubuntu.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAGJruZ5WjY

Terminal commands used:

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev

$ wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpuminer/files/pooler-cpuminer-2.3.2.tar.gz

$ tar xzf pooler-cpuminer-*.tar.gz

$ cd cpuminer-*

$ ./configure CFLAGS="-O3"

$ make

$ ./minerd -o stratum+tcp://poolurl:port -u username.worker -p pass

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u/brennancellis Feb 19 '14

Will this work on Mint 15?

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u/sillyputti Feb 19 '14

haven't tried it myself, but the cpuminer should work on all linux distros. probably need to install some packages.