Compiling the Litecoin daemon from source on Debian
The process for compiling the Litecoin daemon, litecoind, from the source code is pretty simple. This guide is using Debian Linux, though it should not need many modifications for any distros which are forked from Debian, such as Ubuntu and Xubuntu.
Update and install dependencies
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade apt-get install ntp git build-essential libssl-dev libdb-dev libdb++-dev libboost-all-dev libqrencode-dev wget http://miniupnp.free.fr/files/download.php?file=miniupnpc-1.8.tar.gz tar -zxf download.php\?file\=miniupnpc-1.8.tar.gz cd miniupnpc-1.8/ make make install cd .. rm -rf miniupnpc-1.8 download.php\?file\=miniupnpc-1.8.tar.gz
Compile the daemon
Add a new user
adduser litecoin su litecoin
Download the source code
cd ~ git clone https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin
Compile litecoind
cd litecoin/src make -f makefile.unix USE_UPNP=1 USE_QRCODE=1 USE_IPV6=1 strip litecoind exit
Clean up and run the daemon
Copy litecoind to the system directory
cp /home/litecoin/litecoin/src/litecoind /usr/bin/litecoind
Clean up source code and run litecoind
su litecoin cd ~ rm -rf litecoin litecoind
On the first run, litecoind will return an error and tell you to make a configuration file, named litecoin.conf, in order to add a username and password to the file.
nano ~/.litecoin/litecoin.conf
Add the following to your config file, changing the username and password to something secure:
daemon=1 rpcuser=<username> rpcpassword=<secure password>
You can copy the password that you are given in the error message.
Run litecoind once more to start the daemon!
Using litecoind
litecoind help
The above command will list all available functions of the Litecoin daemon. To safely stop the daemon, execute litecoind stop.
