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Linux: Ubuntu/Xubuntu

copied from Helium3's post with a guide for Xubuntu

Install Xubuntu 13.10 (it's the same as Ubuntu but uses Xfce window manager) -
http://xubuntu.org/

[Install base packages - open a terminal window from X]

sudo apt-get install openssh-server

sudo apt-get install vim

sudo apt-get install screen

[Download latest NVIDIA driver from nvidia.com - get the .run file]

[Optional: ssh into box - failing that, press CTRL-ALT-F1 to switch to a terminal window from X]

sudo service lightdm stop

sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-331.38.run  [[change for current driver version]]

sudo vim /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf

[Populate the following file with following information: ]

# Ensure the manual driver and kernel module is used

blacklist nouveau

blacklist lbm-nouveau

blacklist nvidia-173

blacklist nvidia-96

blacklist nvidia-current

blacklist nvidia-173-updates

blacklist nvidia-96-updates

alias nvidia nvidia_current_updates

alias nouveau off

alias lbm-nouveau off

[Recreate the initrd file: ]

sudo update-initramfs -u

[Reboot ]

sudo shutdown -r now

[Check you're running the right driver. Once booted into X, from a terminal run:

nvidia-settings

(or from a pure command shell "nvidia-settings --version")

[Get the CUDA toolkit from the developer.nvidia.com website]

mkdir cuda-extract

./cuda_5.5.22_linux_64.run --extract=~/cuda-extract/

cd cuda-extract

sudo sh ./cuda-linux64-rel-5.5.22-16488124.run

sudo vim /etc/ld.so.conf.d/cuda_settings.conf

[Add these two lines: ]

/usr/local/cuda-5.5/lib64

/usr/local/cuda-5.5/lib

[Rebuild the library data config]

sudo ldconfig

[Add the CUDA bin directory to your path]

echo PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/cuda-5.5/bin" >> ~/.profile

[Install all the various bits you'll need to build CUDAminer]

sudo apt-get install automake

sudo apt-get install curl

sudo apt-get install libcurl3

sudo apt-get install libcurl3:i386

sudo apt-get install libcurl3-gnutls-dev

sudo apt-get install gcc

sudo apt-get install g++

[NOTE: If you install Xubuntu 32bit, you can skip the libcurl3:i386. ]

[NOTE: If you install Xubuntu 64bit, you might also need libc6:i386 & libc++6:i386 but I don't think so]

[Grab Cudaminer from github via git or get the zip and unzip it. Then cd into the root Cudaminer dir]

./autogen.sh

./configure

make

[All of the above should hopefully work]

./cudaminer --help

./cudaminer --benchmark

[*** Optional, disable X from running at start-up ***]

sudo vim /etc/default/grub

[look for this line: ]

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

[change it to: ]

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash text"

[save and exit, then update grub ]

sudo update-grub

sudo shutdown -r now

Linux: Gentoo

1. set your system to use gcc 4.6:

check with: gcc-config -l

set with: gcc-config n where n is the entry with 4.6.x version

2. emerge nvidia packages (unmask as necessary-you want cuda 5.5.x packages):

emerge -atv nvidia-cuda-sdk nvidia-cuda-toolkit nvidia-drivers nvidia-settings

3. emerge git: emerge dev-vcs/git
4. clone the cudaminer git repo: git clone https://github.com/cbuchner1/CudaMiner.git
5. compile it:

cd CudaMiner

optional--build a specific version, eg a release--do: git checkout <tagname|sha>

./autogen.sh ./configure --with-cuda=/opt/cuda make -j8 # assuming you have 8 core cpu

### to update

1. clear your local sandbox:

    `git checkout .`

1. update your repo:

    ```

git fetch

# if you built a specific version earlier, first go back to master before merging with: git checkout master

git merge origin/master

1. save your previous binary (you can always rebuild it if you know git :) )

    `cp cudaminer cudaminer.bak`

1. recompile:

    ```

make clean

# optional--build a specific version, eg a release--do: git checkout <tagname|sha>

./autogen.sh

./configure --with-cuda=/opt/cuda

make -j8 # assuming you have 8 core cpu

Linux: BAMT - TODO, any takers?

Windows: TODO