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@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ Dependencies
libdb4.8 Berkeley DB Blockchain & wallet storage
libboost Boost C++ Library
miniupnpc UPnP Support Optional firewall-jumping support
+ qt GUI GUI toolkit
+ protobuf Payments in GUI Data interchange format used for payment protocol
+ libqrencode QR codes in GUI Optional for generating QR codes
[miniupnpc](http://miniupnp.free.fr/) may be used for UPnP port mapping. It can be downloaded from [here](
http://miniupnp.tuxfamily.org/files/). UPnP support is compiled in and
@@ -46,21 +49,25 @@ Licenses of statically linked libraries:
- Berkeley DB 4.8.30.NC
- Boost 1.37
- miniupnpc 1.6
+- qt 4.8.3
+- protobuf 2.5.0
+- libqrencode 3.2.0
Dependency Build Instructions: Ubuntu & Debian
----------------------------------------------
Build requirements:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
+ sudo apt-get install libtool autotools-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
-for Ubuntu 12.04:
+for Ubuntu 12.04 and later:
sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
db4.8 packages are available [here](https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/bitcoin).
- Ubuntu precise has packages for libdb5.1-dev and libdb5.1++-dev,
+ Ubuntu 12.04 and later have packages for libdb5.1-dev and libdb5.1++-dev,
but using these will break binary wallet compatibility, and is not recommended.
for other Ubuntu & Debian:
@@ -74,6 +81,22 @@ Optional:
sudo apt-get install libminiupnpc-dev (see --with-miniupnpc and --enable-upnp-default)
+Dependencies for the GUI: Ubuntu & Debian
+-----------------------------------------
+
+If you want to build Bitcoin-Qt, make sure that the required packages for Qt development
+are installed. Qt 4 is currently necessary to build the GUI.
+
+To build with Qt 4 you need the following:
+
+ apt-get install libqt4-dev libprotobuf-dev
+
+libqrencode (optional) can be installed with:
+
+ apt-get install libqrencode-dev
+
+Once these are installed, they will be found by configure and a bitcoin-qt executable will be
+built by default.
Notes
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