A sample run of the Bitcoin Core installation on Ubuntu is shown here; for other platforms, you can get details from https://bitcoin.org/en/:
- Run the following command:
$ sudo apt-get update
- Depending on the client required to be installed, users can use either of the following commands, or they can issue both commands at once:
$ sudo apt-get install bitcoind $ sudo apt-get install bitcoin-qt $ sudo apt-get install bitcoin-qt bitcoind Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done .......