Building Fastcoin on Ubuntu for Amazon EC2

How to install fastcoind on Amazon EC2 Ubuntu 12.x x32/x64

## Make instance

    ## launch a t1.micro instance of ubuntu-precise-12.04-amd64-server-20131003
>Launch Instance

    ## create a security group
>Network & Security > Security Groups > Create Security Group

    ##open ports in the security group settings
>port 22 (SSH)
>port 9332 fastcoin rpc respectively

    ## create a keypair.pem file and save it
>Network & Security > Key Pairs > Create Key Pair

    ## set file permissions on pem file
chmod 400 keypair.pem

    ## log in using java ssh client or via ssh with key pair
ssh -i keypair.pem ubuntu@serverIPADDRESS

## Make Swap

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile1 bs=1024 count=524288
sudo mkswap /swapfile1
sudo chown root:root /swapfile1
sudo chmod 0600 /swapfile1
sudo swapon /swapfile1

    ## now edit your fstab
sudo nano /etc/fstab

    ## apend the following
/swapfile1 swap swap defaults 0 0

    ## check that you have swap with
free -m

    ## update
sudo apt-get update

    ## install dependencies
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev libboost-all-dev libdb++-dev git
sudo apt-get install libminiupnpc-dev
    ## confirm y when prompted

    ## clone the lastest fastcoin source from github
git clone https://github.com/fastcoinproject/fastcoin.git -b fastcoin-8.7.2

    ## upgrade
sudo apt-get upgrade

## Make Fastcoin

    ## change directory to src
cd fastcoin/src

    ## create the obj dir
mkdir obj
cd ..

        ## run make with the following arguments
sudo make -j4 -f makefile.unix USE_UPNP=0 USE_IPV6=0

        ## copy fastcoind into the usr/bin folder
sudo cp fastcoind /usr/bin/

        ## create a ".fastcoin" folder in your home directory
mkdir ~/.fastcoin

    ## change directory to ~./fastcoin
cd ~/.fastcoin

        ## create fastcoin.conf
sudo nano fastcoin.conf

server=1
daemon=1
rpcport=9527
port=9526
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcallowip=yourIP
rpcallowip=serverIP
rpcconnect=127.0.0.1
rpcconnect=yourIP
rpcuser=yourusername
rpcpassword=yourpassword
addnode=188.126.8.14
addnode=188.143.73.84
addnode=190.191.141.145
addnode=192.0.209.231
addnode=192.241.183.7
addnode=193.238.64.246
addnode=198.84.250.234
addnode=211.203.176.119

    ## download bootstrap.dat
wget http://archive.org/download/fastcoin_bootstrap/bootstrap.dat.xz

    ## decompress the file
xz -d bootstrap.dat.xz

    ## change to /usr/bin
cd /usr/bin

    ## launch the fastcoin daemon
./fastcoind -dbcache=1000

        ## now run getinfo
fastcoind getinfo

    ## periodicly run getinfo to monitor the "blocks" section
    ## if blocks fail to increase, simply stop the deamon
fastcoind stop
    ## and restart
./fastcoind &

    ## if you download a copy of the blockchain, it is recommended to reindex
./fastcoind -reindex -dbcache=1000 &

## Setup P2Pool

    ## change to your home/user dir
cd /home/username

    ## install dependencies
sudo apt-get install python-dev python-zope.interface python-twisted python-twisted-web git screen
sudo apt-get install python-rrdtool python-pygame python-scipy python-imaging

    ## clone p2pool
sudo git clone https://github.com/m0gliE/p2pool.git

    ## change dir to litecoin_scrypt
cd litecoin_scrypt

    ## setup install
sudo python setup.py install

    ## change dir back to p2pool
cd ..
    ## move web-static folder to web-static-old
sudo mv web-static web-static-old

    ## clone extended frontend
sudo git clone https://github.com/m0gliE/P2PoolExtendedFrontEnd.git web-static

    ## run p2pool command line (make your own edits)
screen sudo python run_p2pool.py --net fastcoin --irc-announce --bitcoind-address 192.168.2.107 --bitcoind-rpc-port 9527 --bitcoind-p2p-port 9526 --give-author 0.5 username password

    ## exit screen (hold ctrl and hit a then d)
ctrl + A D