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-### Seeds ###
+# Seeds
Utility to generate the seeds.txt list that is compiled into the client
(see [src/chainparamsseeds.h](/src/chainparamsseeds.h) and other utilities in [contrib/seeds](/contrib/seeds)).
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The seeds compiled into the release are created from sipa's DNS seed data, like this:
curl -s http://bitcoin.sipa.be/seeds.txt > seeds_main.txt
- python makeseeds.py < seeds_main.txt > nodes_main.txt
- python generate-seeds.py . > ../../src/chainparamsseeds.h
+ python3 makeseeds.py < seeds_main.txt > nodes_main.txt
+ python3 generate-seeds.py . > ../../src/chainparamsseeds.h
+## Dependencies
+
+Ubuntu:
+
+ sudo apt-get install python3-dnspython