bitcoin Getting started with bitcoin Installation or Setup

Example

On Debian-based distributions (e.g. Ubuntu), follow the following steps.

Get Bitcoin Package:
apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin

Update:
apt-get update

Install:
apt-get install bitcoind –y

Reboot:
reboot

After rebooting confirm Bitcoin was installed by checking for the directory ~/.bitcoin or by running bitcoind:
bitcoind