About This Project

This project packages famous ethminer into easily distributable Debian package. This helps to maintain and update the binary.

Note, that this package has OpenCL support only. For CUDA version, see ethminer-cuda repository.

Building the Package

After cloning the repository, run git submodule update --init --recursive to check out all git sub-modules.
To update change log file, run dch -i and make the edits.
Prior building the release, run dch -r to update change log for release procedure.
For debug builds, execute dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us which avoids signing changes and source artifacts.
For release builds, run dpkg-buildpackage without any arguments.

Please visit http://pkg.baltnet.net for instructions how to configure Baltnet repository. To install the package, run following command:

$ sudo apt install ethminer-opencl

There is no default working configuration which a daemon can use. Therefore, a custom configuration must be created manually after installation.