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
Download the source code
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
Add a user and move litecoind
adduser litecoin && usermod -g users litecoin && delgroup litecoin && chmod 0701 /home/litecoin mkdir /home/litecoin/bin cp ~/litecoin/src/litecoind /home/litecoin/bin/litecoind chown -R /home/litecoin/bin litecoin:users cd .. && rm -rf litecoin
Run the daemon
su 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 && chmod 0600 ~/.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 just copy the username and password provided by the error message when you first ran litecoind.
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.
