Missing entry to install #17337

1. 
   renepickhardt commented at 12:00 pm on November 1, 2019: none

   Bitcoin setup is not successfull on a clean ubuntu system following the install instructions https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/build-unix.md

   Expected behavior

   I would expect that installation to complete and that my setup is able to build bitcoin

   Actual behavior

   Apparently ./configure gave this error: “configure: error: libdb_cxx headers missing, Bitcoin Core requires this library for wallet functionality (–disable-wallet to disable wallet functionality)”. next make does not work

   0make
   1make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
   2**System information**
   

   To reproduce

   The bitcoin version this happens is b54666c849bad258d92d6d1e45a051d36055681e

   **Fix ** there are many solutions specified in #2998 but for me the woking one was the comment #2998 (comment) from @bellaj

   0sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
   1sudo apt-get update
   2sudo apt-get install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev
   

   So I guess this could be added to the ubuntu section of https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/build-unix.md ?

2. renepickhardt added the label Bug on Nov 1, 2019
3. fanquake added the label Linux/Unix on Nov 1, 2019
4. 
   hebasto commented at 1:46 pm on November 1, 2019: member

   So I guess this could be added to the ubuntu section of https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/build-unix.md ?

   From build-unix.md:

   Ubuntu and Debian have their own libdb-dev and libdb++-dev packages, but these will install BerkeleyDB 5.1 or later. This will break binary wallet compatibility with the distributed executables, which are based on BerkeleyDB 4.8. If you do not care about wallet compatibility, pass --with-incompatible-bdb to configure.

   Otherwise, you can build from self-compiled depends (see above).

5. laanwj removed the label Bug on Nov 1, 2019
6. laanwj added the label Questions and Help on Nov 1, 2019
7. 
   laanwj commented at 2:12 pm on November 1, 2019: member

   For the wallet you need some version of BerkeleyDB. On Debian I usually just install the libdb++-dev (5.x), but if compatibility with the distributed binaries is important you need to use 4.8.

   The supported cross-platform way to build BerkeleyDB 4.8 is to use the contrib/install_db4.sh script. This is mentioned in all the doc/build-*.md files.

   (the PPA is another option, but as this relies on a third-party source, this is intentionally not mentioned)

8. laanwj closed this on Nov 1, 2019

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9. 
   MarcoFalke commented at 2:38 pm on November 1, 2019: member

   https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/ubuntu/bitcoin says “NOT MAINTAINED (for new versions of Ubuntu)”, so I’d rather not use that.
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