BUILD_UBUNTU

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Build and Install Instructions

The following dependencies were necessary for a clean install of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cmake make libbz2-dev libdb++-dev libdb-dev libssl-dev openssl libreadline-dev autoconf libtool git ntp libcurl4-openssl-dev g++

Build Boost 1.57.0

The Boost which ships with Ubuntu 14.04 is too old. You need to download the Boost tarball for Boost 1.57.0 (Note, 1.58.0 requires C++14 and will not build on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS; this requirement was an accident, see this mailing list post).

BOOST_ROOT=$HOME/opt/boost_1_57_0
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install autotools-dev build-essential libbz2-dev libicu-dev python-dev
wget -c 'http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.57.0/boost_1_57_0.tar.bz2/download' -O boost_1_57_0.tar.bz2
[ $( sha256sum boost_1_57_0.tar.bz2 | cut -d ' ' -f 1 ) == "910c8c022a33ccec7f088bd65d4f14b466588dda94ba2124e78b8c57db264967" ] || ( echo 'Corrupt download' ; exit 1 )
tar xjf boost_1_57_0.tar.bz2
cd boost_1_57_0/
./bootstrap.sh "--prefix=$BOOST_ROOT"
./b2 install

Build BitShares Core

cd ..
git clone https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core.git
cd bitshares-core
git submodule update --init --recursive
cmake -DBOOST_ROOT="$BOOST_ROOT" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .
make 

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ships with Boost 1.58 libraries, so no need to build from source.

sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev

Other steps are same to 14.04 LTS.

Error {"message":"Timer Expired"} in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

If error {"message":"Timer Expired"} dropped then it could be issue with websocketpp in linux kernel > 4.4.

Details here.

Steps to fix:

cd ~/bitshares-core/libraries/fc/vendor/websocketpp

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/DECENTfoundation/websocketpp.git

git fetch

git checkout 

And then build BitShares Core.