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How to build the Alias wallet on Ubuntu

In the following a short description how to build aliaswallet and aliaswalletd on Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04

Preparing build system

Update package lists and update system:

apt-get update -y && apt-get upgrade -y

Install build time dependencies:

Ubuntu 18.04 / 20.04

apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
    autoconf \
    automake \
    build-essential \
    ca-certificates \
    g++ \
    gpg \
    git \
    less \
    libcap-dev \
    libevent-dev \
    libqt5network5 \
    libqt5quick5 \
    libqt5quickwidgets5 \
    libqt5svg5-dev \
    libqt5webchannel5-dev \
    libqt5websockets5-dev \
    libqt5webview5-dev \
    libqt5widgets5 \
    libseccomp-dev \
    libssl-dev \
    libtool \
    libz-dev \
    locales \
    make \
    openssh-client \
    pkg-config \
    qt5-default \
    qtbase5-dev \
    qttools5-dev \
    qttools5-dev-tools \
    qtwebengine5-dev \
    software-properties-common \
    wget \

See up2date list of build time dependencies on corresponding Dockerfiles, which we use to build Alias with Github-Actions.

CMake

Ubuntu 18.x

Install CMake from Kitware as distro package is too old

wget -O - https://apt.kitware.com/keys/kitware-archive-latest.asc 2>/dev/null | gpg --dearmor - | tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/kitware.gpg >/dev/null
apt-add-repository 'deb https://apt.kitware.com/ubuntu/ bionic main'
apt-get update -y
apt-get install -y cmake

Ubuntu 20.x

apt-get install -y cmake

Build

To build Alias you need to do the same steps as we do using Docker. The latest version can be found here.

  • Clone the Git repository and cd into the directory 
    » git clone https://github.com/aliascash/alias-wallet.git
» cd alias-wallet
  • Perform the build 
    » ./scripts/cmake-build.sh -g -s

Used options:

  • -g to build the graphical UI
  • -s to use Qt from the system

Use option -h to see the full list of available options.

The two binaries aliaswallet (UI) and aliaswalletd (daemon) can be found in the directory cmake-build-cmdline/aliaswallet/src/ afterwards.

To install them, just do this:

cp cmake-build-cmdline/aliaswallet/src/aliaswallet  /usr/local/bin/aliaswallet
cp cmake-build-cmdline/aliaswallet/src/aliaswalletd /usr/local/bin/aliaswalletd

Now you can use them right from the cmdline.

Please refer to these additional documentations regarding the installation:

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