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Installing Blockstream Satellite on Raspberry Pi 3B
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Installing Blockstream Satellite on Raspberry Pi 3B

Raspberry Pi 3B is architecture armhf (arm7l + floating point) but you can install the Ubuntu MATE experimental amd64 image.

Install Ubuntu MATE

  1. Download image
  2. Decompress image
  3. Write image to SD card
  4. Insert SD card into Raspberry Pi 3B
  5. Boot up the Raspberry Pi 3B
  6. Setup wifi
  7. Update the system with sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt autoremove

Setup Blockstream Satellite

Add repository

Install packages

sudo apt install satellite

Setup Bitcoin FIBRE

Install support packages

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential automakers libtool pkg-config libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev libssl-dev libevent-dev libclang-dev

Download Bitcoin FIBRE and compile

git clone https://github.com/bitcoinfibre/bitcoinfibre.git`
cd bitcoinfibre
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install
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