How do I install the Monero GUI on PureOS?

Question

Now that Purism accepts Monero payments through globee I am interested in using Monero on a Librem laptop which runs PureOS.

What are the installation steps (including necessary dependencies) required to install the official Monero GUI on PureOS?

Answer 1

PureOS is based on Debian so you need to work with the Ubuntu x64 instructions on the project page and adapt them slightly. Main differences:

• you need git to download the project
• libqt5qml-graphicaleffects is an Ubuntu package and is named qml-module-qtgraphicaleffects in the Debian world
• you need the libreadline-dev and qml-module-qt-labs-folderlistmodel packages

Steps to install monero-gui on PureOS

This has been tested with PureOS 8.0 "Prometheus" Beta 1.

• Open a terminal

• Download dependencies

  (This assumes that you have sudo and that your user is a sudoer)

  sudo apt-get install git build-essential cmake libboost-all-dev miniupnpc libunbound-dev graphviz doxygen libunwind8-dev pkg-config libssl-dev libzmq3-dev qtbase5-dev qt5-default qtdeclarative5-dev qml-module-qtquick-controls qml-module-qtquick-xmllistmodel qttools5-dev-tools qml-module-qtquick-dialogs qml-module-qt-labs-settings qml-module-qtgraphicaleffects libreadline-dev qml-module-qt-labs-folderlistmodel
  

• Download and build the project

  cd ~
  mkdir monero
  cd monero
  git clone https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui
  cd monero-gui
  ./build.sh
  

• Go and get a cuppa while the project gets compiled...

• Run the GUI:

  cd ~/monero/monero-gui/build/release/bin
  ./monero-wallet-gui
  

Answer 2

PureOS is based on Debian, so you can follow the instructions on this page (follow the Ubuntu and Mint path):

https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui

1. Install Monero dependencies For Ubuntu and Mint

sudo apt install build-essential cmake libboost-all-dev miniupnpc libunbound-dev graphviz doxygen libunwind8-dev pkg-config libssl-dev libzmq3-dev

2. Grab an up-to-date copy of the monero-gui repository

git clone https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui.git

3. Go into the repository

cd monero-gui

4. Install the GUI Dependencies

For Ubuntu 16.04+ x64

sudo apt install qtbase5-dev qt5-default qtdeclarative5-dev qml-module-qtquick-controls qml-module-qtquick-xmllistmodel qttools5-dev-tools qml-module-qtquick-dialogs qml-module-qt-labs-settings libqt5qml-graphicaleffects

Optional : To build the flag WITH_SCANNER

For Ubuntu and Mint

sudo apt install qtmultimedia5-dev qml-module-qtmultimedia libzbar-dev

5. Build the GUI

For Ubuntu and Mint

./build.sh

The executable can be found in the build/release/bin folder.

Hope it helps!

Answer 3

The Monero-gui is now available through Whonix's APT repository. For easier instructions, see this question here: How to install Monero on Debian Linux?