ZVS,
thank you for a quick response. Root is my username from Digital ocean but should enter through another user or not work in the root directory? It looks like the ptsminer is in the directory but I have no idea if its compiled...  Does it look compiled below or or am I missing some steps? I've entered the command for github ptsminer from the first page of this forum and the protoshares mining guide web page. Whats below is everything in my directory. When I attempt to compile the miner again I get an error "directory already exists"?


root@Protoshares:~# ls -latr
total 36
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  140 Apr 19  2012 .profile
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3106 Apr 19  2012 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Oct 24 13:37 ..
drwx------  2 root root 4096 Oct 24 14:21 .ssh
drwx------  2 root root 4096 Oct 24 14:45 .cache
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    0 Oct 24 17:03 .mysql_history
-rw-------  1 root root 1118 Dec 11 11:22 .viminfo
drwx------  5 root root 4096 Jan  5 17:47 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Jan  5 17:47 ptsminer
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1515 Jan  9 19:25 .bash_history

root@Protoshares:~# cd ./ptsminer
root@Protoshares:~/ptsminer# ls -latr
total 28
drwx------ 5 root root 4096 Jan  5 17:47 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  500 Jan  5 17:47 README.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  544 Jan  5 17:47 INSTALL-Debian.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1858 Jan  5 17:47 CMakeLists.txt
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan  5 17:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jan  5 17:47 .git
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan  8 22:05 src

root@Protoshares:~/ptsminer/.git# ls -latr
total 52
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan  5 17:47 info
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan  5 17:47 hooks
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   73 Jan  5 17:47 description
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan  5 17:47 branches
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan  5 17:47 objects
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   94 Jan  5 17:47 packed-refs
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jan  5 17:47 refs
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan  5 17:47 logs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   23 Jan  5 17:47 HEAD
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  263 Jan  5 17:47 config
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan  5 17:47 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2040 Jan  5 17:47 index
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jan  5 17:47 .

root@Protoshares:~/ptsminer/src# ls -latr
total 232
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12115 Jan  5 17:47 sph_sha2.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23756 Jan  5 17:47 sph_sha2.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10330 Jan  5 17:47 sph_md_helper.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3569 Jan  5 17:47 sha512.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  7805 Jan  5 17:47 sha512.c
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   185 Jan  5 17:47 osfinder.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3479 Jan  5 17:47 makefile.unix.no-chrono
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4521 Jan  5 17:47 makefile.unix
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1888 Jan  5 17:47 makefile.osx
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4243 Jan  5 17:47 makefile.mingw64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2053 Jan  5 17:47 makefile.mingw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  8928 Jan  5 17:47 main_poolminer.hpp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22622 Jan  5 17:47 main_poolminer.cpp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jan  5 17:47 intel
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3843 Jan  5 17:47 cpuid.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5240 Jan  5 17:47 cpuid.c
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root  4096 Jan  5 17:47 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63942 Jan  5 17:47 sph_types.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  8509 Jan  5 17:47 sph_sha2big.c
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jan  5 17:48 obj
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root  4096 Jan  8 22:05 .


I'll be sure to tip when this is up and running!

cheers