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Chapter 3. General Utilities

Monero-0.18.4.5

Introduction to Monero

The Monero package provides a daemon and wallet tool for accessing the Monero, or XMR, crypto currency. The wallet tool provided by this package is command-line only.

[Note]

Note

There is a GUI wallet tool made by the Monero project, but it only has support for Qt-5, no longer in BLFS, and Qt-5 in older versions of BLFS no longer builds properly. Thus, you may have to use a third-party GUI wallet tool, which is not recommended, find a way to build Qt-5, or stick with the command-line wallet tool.

[Note]

Note

This may take a while to build. Feel free to do something else while this is building.

Monero Dependencies

Required

Boost, CMake, libsodium-1.0.21, Unbound, and libzmq-4.3.5

Recommended

HIDAPI-0.15.0, libunwind, libusb, and Protobuf

Optional

Doxygen, Graphviz, gtest, and miniupnp

Downloading Monero

Create a list of the needed tarballs that will be downloaded: 

cat > monero-list << "EOF"
monero-project/monero/archive/v0.18.4.5/monero-0.18.4.5.tar.gz
google/googletest/archive/b514bdc898e2951020cbdca1304b75f5950d1f59.tar.gz
miniupnp/miniupnp/archive/544e6fcc73c5ad9af48a8985c94f0f1d742ef2e0.tar.gz
tevador/RandomX/archive/102f8acf90a7649ada410de5499a7ec62e49e1da.tar.gz
Tencent/rapidjson/archive/129d19ba7f496df5e33658527a7158c79b99c21c.tar.gz
monero-project/supercop/archive/633500ad8c8759995049ccd022107d1fa8a1bbc9.tar.gz
EOF

Now download the package, its submodules, and needed patches if applicable, using Wget: 

mkdir monero &&
cd    monero &&
grep -v '^#' ../monero-list | wget -i- -c \
    -B https://github.com

Installation of Monero

There should be a dedicated user and group to take control of the monerod daemon after it is started. Issue the following commands as the root user: 

groupadd -fg 66 monero &&
useradd -c "Monero Full Node" -d /var/lib/monero -u 66 \
        -g monero -s /bin/false monero

Extract all the tarballs: 

for i in *.tar.?z*; do
  echo "Extracting $i..."
  tar -xf $i
done

Now that everything has been extracted, the required extracted submodules need to be moved into monero-0.18.4.5. Do that by running the following commands: 

mv -T googletest-* monero-0.18.4.5/external/gtest     &&
mv -T miniupnp-*   monero-0.18.4.5/external/miniupnp  &&
mv -T RandomX-*    monero-0.18.4.5/external/randomx   &&
mv -T rapidjson-*  monero-0.18.4.5/external/rapidjson &&
mv -T supercop-*   monero-0.18.4.5/external/supercop

Now go into the monero-0.18.4.5 directory: 

cd monero-0.18.4.5

Ensure Protobuf has the right C++ standard set: 

sed 's|std=c++11|std=c++17|g' \
  -i contrib/depends/protobuf.mk

Install Monero by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -D BUILD_GUI_DEPS=ON         \
      -G Ninja -W no-dev .. &&

ninja

Now, as the root user: 

install -vDm755 bin/* -t /usr/bin/

Configuration Information

Config Files

/etc/monero.conf

Command Explanations

-D BUILD_GUI_DEPS=ON: This parameter ensures the dependencies for the GUI wallet are built, in case the GUI wallet tool gains support for Qt-6, GTK, or something else.

Contents

Installed Programs: monero-blockchain-ancestry, monero-blockchain-depth, monero-blockchain-export, monero-blockchain-import, monero-blockchain-mark-spent-outputs, monero-blockchain-prune, monero-blockchain-prune-known-spent-data, monero-blockchain-stats, monero-blockchain-usage, monerod, monero-gen-ssl-cert, monero-gen-trusted-multisig, monero-wallet-cli, and monero-wallet-rpc
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

monerod

is the Monero daemon

monero-wallet-cli

allows creating and working with a Monero wallet

monero-wallet-rpc

is the RPC version of the CLI wallet