How to run a ZCoin node in Linux Mint

Before we start visit the official site of ZCoin zcoin.io/about/ , so you get some information and get familiar to it, and remember this is not the same as Zcash!!

As you know I like to run all the nodes in Virtual Machines using Oracle Virtual Box, if you are not familiar with it check this out: How to start a node using Virtual Box so I recommend to you to create a new Virtual Machine for this since I’m going to do everything in Linux Mint.

I recommend to you to assign at least 80gb of disk space also.

Let’s start:

1.- Open the official Zcoin site zcoin.io in the browser and go to “GET ZCOIN” and prepare to download.

2.- We are looking for the linux version, just click in the link to start the download.

3.- After the download its completed, I went to “downloads” folder and moved the file to a different directory “Documents” (you can do here as you wish). As reminder you don’t have to use commands in order to accomplish this just open home folder and use right click to cut/copy and paste files, also you have he option to extract compressed files.

4.- After extracting the file you will find a single file “zcoin-qt” which is the zcoin UI wallet, so now I’m going to create a new folder to place this in a better clean way and move the file there under home folder and again you do it as you wish since the file will work on any directory I just want to keep it clean and organized.

• I cut the file to move it to the folder I created “zcoin”
• And paste it in the new folder we created

5.- Now that we have our wallet ready to be executed, it won’t work because it need some dependencies that need to be taken care before, if we try to run it as it is it won’t work so now we proceed to do the following:

• Open a new terminal window.

• Now you have to execute the following commands, and here is the official reference of this zcoin/wiki/Installation:
  • sudo apt install software-properties-common
  • sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
  • sudo apt update
  • sudo apt install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev
  • sudo apt install build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config libssl-dev libevent-dev bsdmainutils
  • sudo apt install libboost-all-dev

Notes: Notice that I’m not executed all the commands listed in the “wiki installation reference” page, to make it work you don’t need to execute them all but just the ones I put here.

Here are other notes:

1. You will be asked for sudo password.
2. Hit Yes to proceed the intallations.
3. Some commands will take a little time so be pacient.
4. If you counter any exception please post it here so you can get help.

• Now open a new terminal to start the wallet, if you open the terminal doing right click in the folder the wallet is located automatically will open a terminal positioned at the same location as the wallet.

• Open the wallet running the following command:
  • ./zcoin-qt

• If we did everything correctly, you will see this:

6. Check your ZCoin address:

• Go to “Receive” tab
• Right click on the address you see and click “Copy Address”, now paste it wherever you want and done.

Notes: Notice that I’m not executed all the commands listed in the “wiki installation reference” page, to make it work you don’t need to execute them all but just the ones I put here.

Here are other notes:

• You will be asked for sudo password.
• Hit Yes to proceed the intallations.
• Some commands will take a little time so be pacient.
• If you counter any exception please post it here so you can get help.