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@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ invokes cmake commands as needed. #### On the Raspberry Pi -Tested on a Raspberry Pi Zero with a clean install of minimal Debian Stretch (2017-09-07 or later) from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/ +Tested on a Raspberry Pi Zero with a clean install of minimal Raspbian Stretch (2017-09-07 or later) from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/. If you are using Raspian Jessie, [please see note in the following section](#note-for-raspbian-jessie-users). * `apt-get update && apt-get upgrade` to install all of the latest software @@ -244,6 +244,38 @@ Tested on a Raspberry Pi Zero with a clean install of minimal Debian Stretch (20 * You may wish to reduce the size of the swap file after the build has finished, and delete the boost directory from your home directory +#### *Note for Raspbian Jessie Users:* + +If you are using the older Raspbian Jessie image, compiling Monero is a bit more complicated. The version of Boost available in the Debian Jessie repositories is too old to use with Monero, and thus you must compile a newer version yourself. The following explains the extra steps, and has been tested on a Raspberry Pi 2 with a clean install of minimal Raspbian Jessie. + +* As before, `apt-get update && apt-get upgrade` to install all of the latest software, and increase the system swap size + +``` + sudo /etc/init.d/dphys-swapfile stop + sudo nano /etc/dphys-swapfile + CONF_SWAPSIZE=1024 + sudo /etc/init.d/dphys-swapfile start +``` + +* Then, install the dependencies for Monero except `libunwind` and `libboost-all-dev` + +* Install the latest version of boost (this may first require invoking `apt-get remove --purge libboost*` to remove a previous version if you're not using a clean install): +``` + cd + wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.64.0/boost_1_64_0.tar.bz2 + tar xvfo boost_1_64_0.tar.bz2 + cd boost_1_64_0 + ./bootstrap.sh + sudo ./b2 +``` +* Wait ~8 hours +``` + sudo ./bjam install +``` +* Wait ~4 hours + +* From here, follow the [general Raspberry Pi instructions](#on-the-raspberry-pi) from the "Clone monero and checkout most recent release version" step. + #### On Windows: Binaries for Windows are built on Windows using the MinGW toolchain within |