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XMR-Stak Linux

Native binaries may be available for your distribution's package manager.
If no binaries are available, or you prefer to compile, follow these instructions:
Ubuntu 16.04
If you want to use your GPU for mining, do the following:
For nVidia GPU’s
Install drivers for your card
Download the latest CUDA Toolkit from here.
Download the base installer and follow the compilation instructions
Download every patch one-by-one in order and apply the patches
After that, you should be good.
For AMD GPU’s
Install drivers for your card
download the latest APP SDK from here. It should have the name AMD-APP-SDKInstaller-v(version number)-GA-linux64.tar.bz2
Extract it
Open the terminal wherever it is located
(optional) name it to something simpler
In the terminal, type ./(name).sh
After installing, you should be good.
Running with CPU, AMD & nVidia GPUs
1.Open the terminal and install dependencies by running this command
sudo apt install libmicrohttpd-dev libssl-dev cmake build-essential libhwloc-dev
1.Clone the package
git clone https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak.git
1.Make a directory
mkdir xmr-stak/build
1.Move over there
cd xmr-stak/build
1.Run cmake
cmake ..
If you don’t have nVidia GPUs, type:
cmake .. -DCUDA_ENABLE=OFF
If you don’t have AMD GPUs, type
cmake .. -DOpenCL_ENABLE=OFF
If you have neither (only CPU mining) type
cmake .. -DCUDA_ENABLE=OFF -DOpenCL_ENABLE=OFF
1.Finish building it
make install
1.XMR-Stak will now be located in /home/user/xmr-stak/build/bin
2.Type the following to begin configuration
./xmr-stak
1.Check XMR-Stak Setup and Configuration to learn how to configure the miner.

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