How to build and install Bitcoin on CentOS 7

How to build and install Bitcoin on CentOS 7

The following instructions show you how to configure, compile, and install Bitcoin 0.16.0

Update your operating system packages

The first step is to always make sure your operating system and all of it’s packages are up-to-date.

yum upgrade

Adding EPEL repository

Bitcoin requires a few libraries that are not provided by the default CentOS package repository. We could build these libraries from source but a better option is to use EPEL.

yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

Installing Dependencies

The following packages are required to build and install bitcoin from source.

yum install autoconf automake gcc-c++ libdb4-cxx libdb4-cxx-devel boost-devel openssl-devel libtool libevent-devel

Build and install OpenSSL required dependency.

We are going to have download, build, and install a separate copy of OpenSSL.

cd /usr/src

wget https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1l.tar.gz

tar zxvf openssl-1.0.1l.tar.gz

cd openssl-1.0.1l

export CFLAGS="-fPIC"

./config --prefix=/opt/openssl shared enable-ec enable-ecdh enable-ecdsa

make all

make install

cd /usr/src

wget https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.16.0/bitcoin-0.16.0.tar.gz

tar xzvf bitcoin-0.16.0.tar.gz

cd bitcoin-0.16.0.tar.gz

./autogen.sh 

./configure --prefix=/opt/bitcoin PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/openssl/lib/pkgconfig LIBS=-Wl,-rpath,/opt/openssl/lib

make

make install