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Paul Smedley

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Test build of Electrum Bitcoin wallet
« on: March 29, 2015, 10:56:59 am »
Hi All,

I've spent some time looking at Bitcoin wallets. I seem to have Electrum at least starting OK (I have no bitcoins hence haven't tried any transactions).

http://smedley.id.au/tmp/electrum-2.0.3-os2-20150329.zip

This is a bundle of Python 2.7 + PtQt4 v4.11.3 + Electrum v2.03

See readme.os2 for some details.

Once there is more testing, I'll do some work to split out PyQt4, Python and electrum.

Cheers,

Paul

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Re: Test build of Electrum Bitcoin wallet
« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2015, 07:27:30 pm »
Also for the Full Bitcoin-QT client test builds try:
0.10.0
http://smedley.id.au/tmp/bitcoin-0.10.0-os2-20150402.zip
0.10.2
http://smedley.id.au/tmp/bitcoin-qt-0.10.2-20150525.zip

Make sure you have plenty of hard drive space as these will download the full 35GB+ Bitcoin Blockchain.
« Last Edit: May 25, 2015, 08:48:36 pm by Sam Lewis »

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Re: Test build of Electrum Bitcoin wallet
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2015, 08:14:53 pm »
Thanks Sam and Paul,

I'll copy over my blockchain tomorrow or Wednesday and see how compatible it is,
then I might think about my wallet after :)
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Ian B Manners

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Re: Test build of Electrum Bitcoin wallet
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2015, 08:52:03 pm »
Thanks Sam and Paul,

I'll copy over my blockchain tomorrow or Wednesday and see how compatible it is,
then I might think about my wallet after :)

I'll be really interested to hear your results.
I didn't have any luck copying over my blockchain from Windoze.  But maybe I did something wrong?!?
Thanks,
Sam

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Re: Test build of Electrum Bitcoin wallet
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2015, 09:11:19 pm »

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Re: Test build of Electrum Bitcoin wallet
« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2015, 11:39:34 am »
Hi guys,

Thanks Sam and Paul,

I'll copy over my blockchain tomorrow or Wednesday and see how compatible it is,
then I might think about my wallet after :)

I'll be really interested to hear your results.
I didn't have any luck copying over my blockchain from Windoze.  But maybe I did something wrong?!?
Thanks,
Sam

Copying over a blockchain from linux worked fine for me....

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Re: Test build of Electrum Bitcoin wallet
« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2015, 08:04:18 pm »
A late reply,

Started the bitcoin QT client, let it create the directories it wanted then closed it down.
copied my blockchain over to /apps/.bitcoin and restarted the exe. Took a long time to
check the blocks which was ok as my server fell over after upgrading the firewall software.

The client eventually finished checking and started up fine, my wallet amount looked good,
tomorrow I'll restart it and make sure it talks to the net ok, I see no reason that it shouldn't  but
considering the time here and the time it took me to put a monitor, keyboard, and a DVD on my
headless server to boot and return to my previous version of the firewall software in between
the traps with fxwrap..  <== no server, no internet access, as the server sits between the inside
network and the outside world..

At least I updated my config.x in the process, it was dated 2001, shows how many times I'm
problems with this server since I upgraded it in 2007.
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Ian B Manners

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Re: Test build of Electrum Bitcoin wallet
« Reply #7 on: June 04, 2015, 09:57:18 pm »
Sounds good.

Once I got the blockchain downloaded I sent a Bitcoin to it and then made a purchase from Arca Noae with no problems.  Hopefully we can figure out why the download and updates take so long.  Also it seems to take over 1GB of RAM.

Is there a utility to show how much RAM an app/process is using?  I really miss Process Commander.

Please keep us updated.
Thanks,
Sam

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Re: Test build of Electrum Bitcoin wallet
« Reply #8 on: June 05, 2015, 02:26:19 am »
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Is there a utility to show how much RAM an app/process is using?  I really miss Process Commander.

Theseus is the official utility which shows memory usage in great detail  :)
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/memory/thes3003.zip

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Re: Test build of Electrum Bitcoin wallet
« Reply #9 on: June 05, 2015, 11:38:10 pm »
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Is there a utility to show how much RAM an app/process is using?  I really miss Process Commander.

Theseus is the official utility which shows memory usage in great detail  :)
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/memory/thes3003.zip
Is there an advantage to using Theseus 3?  I've used version 4 for so long I don't recall the differences other than that 3 requires a device driver and 4 does not:
ftp://ftp.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/v4.5warp/theseus4/

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Re: Test build of Electrum Bitcoin wallet
« Reply #10 on: June 06, 2015, 03:17:21 am »
Brain is going  :) You're right, I misremembered the version.