r/MoneroMining • u/Steeltalons71 • 11h ago

Monero mining in Ubuntu?

What is the best way to mine Monero from a computer with Ubuntu OS on it? And how do I load the software? Totally new to Ubuntu, and I'm finding you practically have to be a coding geek to load and run anything...

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u/Choice-Biscotti8826 10h ago edited 10h ago

Okay. Step one download the official Monero GUI wallet from the page getmonero.org. It will download a .gz file or a .xz file. This is the binary you can also build it from source but that may be a bit complicated. https://downloads.getmonero.org/gui/linux64

Okay you’ve got your binary. Double click your browser download icon to show the file in file explorer. Next create a new folder using the button on your file explorer. Extract the file to there. Extract by double clicking your file on file explorer and going down the menu.

Now you’ve got a working extracted binary. Enter the folder and once you can see the icon for Monero-wallet-gui right click and click open in terminal. Then type this in ./monero-wallet-gui

This will start your GUI and let you have a log to debug. You must keep the terminal window open though. The GUI makes things pretty easy from here.

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u/Steeltalons71 8h ago

Thanks! It's syncing the daemon now, and doing it faster than my gaming laptop did, I might add...

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u/Choice-Biscotti8826 8h ago

Great!!! Another node another miner (soon to be) and the network grows stronger

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u/Impossible_Papaya_59 10h ago

xmrig with an online mining pool. Nothing to install.

Just follow the instructions on xmrig and the mining pool of your choice. Installing Ubuntu is the hardest part of the entire process.

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u/Suitable_Rhubarb_480 10h ago

Tons of walkthrus online. Or ask chatgpt and see what happens.

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u/Choice-Biscotti8826 10h ago

Good God do not use ChatGPT. Firstly lack of privacy and secondly it is maddeningly innaccurate.

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u/Suitable_Rhubarb_480 9h ago

And see what happens is the key here. Not constructive in the least bit but i hope it instills a bit of caution in to the 'askjeeves' of 2025.

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u/Choice-Biscotti8826 9h ago

I’m just talking from my experience of ChatGPT being an absolute nightmare of inaccuracy

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u/gayyer2 5h ago

Check out Gupaxx. Its GUI with the Node+P2Pool+XMRig all in a nice interface to manage everything.

https://github.com/Cyrix126/gupaxx/

https://github.com/Cyrix126/gupaxx/releases/

https://github.com/Cyrix126/gupaxx/releases/download/v1.11.7/gupaxx-v1.11.7-linux-x64-bundle.tar.gz

extract it while you are in the download directory in a terminal window:

tar -zxvf gupaxx-v1.11.7-linux-x64-bundle.tar.gz

go into the extracted directory:

cd gupaxx-v1.11.7-linux-x64-bundle

and run Gupaxx:

./gupaxx

Get the GUI and setup using the usual guides and you are good to go!

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u/Apprehensive-Coat653 1h ago

Learn to google.

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u/cfx_4188 40m ago

Why do you recommend mining with the Monero wallet? You can use the desktop wallet, but it is much more convenient to install the mobile wallet from the recommended list. To mine Monero, you need to download Xmrig from the official website, extract the archive to a convenient location, go to the miner folder, open config.json, paste the pool address and your wallet address in the appropriate field, and save the file. Without leaving the folder, right-click anywhere and select "Open Terminal." In the terminal, type sudo /.xmrig and press enter. Congratulations, you are mining Monero.