D02. Mining | XMR Stak Linux Guide

How to Set Up XMR-Stak on 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

2. Clone the package

git clone https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak.git

3. Make a directory

mkdir xmr-stak/build

4. Move over there

cd xmr-stak/build

5. 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

6. Finish building it

make install

7. XMR-Stak will now be located in /home/user/xmr-stak/build/bin

8. Type the following to begin configuration

./xmr-stak

9. Check XMR-Stak Setup and Configuration to learn how to configure the miner.