Installation of Bitshares2-light on Linux debian

[goldielocks]

Hi,

After running:

$ sudo dpkg -i BitShares2-light_2.0.170915_amd64.deb

Try running:

$ sudo apt-get -f install

That should install the dependencies

You can read more about it here:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/40011/how-to-let-dpkg-i-install-dependencies-for-me#40050

[komodo_island]

I encounter similar issue while installing the wallet:

 sudo dpkg -i BitShares2-light_2.0.170915_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 187 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack BitShares2-light_2.0.170915_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking bitshares2-light (2.0.170915-140) over (2.0.170915-140) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bitshares2-light:
 bitshares2-light depends on gconf2; however:
  Package gconf2 is not installed.
 bitshares2-light depends on gconf-service; however:
  Package gconf-service is not installed.
 bitshares2-light depends on libnotify4; however:
  Package libnotify4 is not installed.
 bitshares2-light depends on libappindicator1; however:
  Package libappindicator1 is not installed.
 bitshares2-light depends on libxtst6; however:
  Package libxtst6 is not installed.
 bitshares2-light depends on libnss3; however:
  Package libnss3 is not installed.
 bitshares2-light depends on libxss1; however:
  Package libxss1 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package bitshares2-light (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 bitshares2-light

Does anyone got a solution for this?

[goldielocks]

Got it.

Thanks for getting back to me.

I joined the Telegram chat group and they suggested I just download and install the .deb package which I have now done using:

$ sudo dpkg -i BitShares2-light_2.0.170915_amd64.deb

The first time I opened it by typing 'bitshares2-light' in the command line I got a blank screen then after pressing view > reload was able to set up an account. It had been freezing with the scrolling three dots animation so I closed it and reopened it, which seems to have helped. Now need to work out how to buy some BTS

[xeroc]

you don't need to build the backend if you only want to use it.
In that case you can aswell use openledger or bitshares.org/wallet .. or wallet.bitshares.eu

the backend is only used by service operators (like openledger)

[goldielocks]

Very keen to give bitshares a go, however, just don't understand the installation process.

I'm running Debian Stretch and the current version of openssl is 1.1.0f and Boost version is 1.62 as a result I need to follow the instructions to:

 ' manually provide an older version of OpenSSL and specify it to CMake using -DOPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR, -DOPENSSL_SSL_LIBRARY, and -DOPENSSL_CRYPTO_LIBRARY'

and

'manually build an older version of Boost and specify it to CMake using DBOOST_ROOT'

I need step by step instructions on how to do these two steps. Or I'm I missing something?

Any help would be much appreciated.