Installing Bitcoin Armory on Ubuntu

I installed Bitcoin Armory on Ubuntu 13.10. I get the following output when I try to run it:

root@cloud-server-07:/BitcoinArmory# python ArmoryQt.py
********************************************************************************
Loading Armory Engine:
   Armory Version:       0.91.1
   PyBtcWallet  Version: 1.35
Detected Operating system: Linux
   OS Variant            : ('Ubuntu', '13.10', 'saucy')
   User home-directory   : /root
   Satoshi BTC directory : /root/.bitcoin/
   Armory home dir       : /root/.armory/
   LevelDB directory     : /root/.armory/databases
   Armory settings file  : /root/.armory/ArmorySettings.txt
   Armory log file       : /root/.armory/armorylog.txt
   Do wallet checking    : True
ArmoryQt.py: cannot connect to X server

Does anyone have any idea why?

Emre Kenci

Posted 2014-06-05T11:05:35.420

Reputation: 3 008

Answers

You should not run Armory as root. If you want to run armory as another user, pick a user other than root. You can use "sux" (which you can apt-get install) to become that new user.

njaard

Posted 2014-06-05T11:05:35.420

Reputation: 151

Why should you not run armory as root? – Emre Kenci – 2014-06-26T11:10:27.393

The installation went fine, but the last line ArmoryQt.py: cannot connect to X server is the error. Somehow the program cannot be shown in a window. When this happens in an ssh session, you need to relogin with the -X or -Y option. In your case, I think you have to look at this answer:

You need to allow the root user access to the X server:
xhost local:root
And point the command to the right DISPLAY:
 sudo DISPLAY=$DISPLAY gedit /etc/profile

Mathias711

Posted 2014-06-05T11:05:35.420

Reputation: 1 390

I'm connecting to this machine through SSH. 'xhost local:root' returns 'xhost: unable to open display ""' – Emre Kenci – 2014-06-05T12:07:17.760

I'm actually trying to run armory as daemon and use JSON-RPC commands using armoryd.py. That gives the error: File "armoryd.py", line 55, in <module> from txjsonrpc.auth import wrapResource ImportError: No module named txjsonrpc.auth – Emre Kenci – 2014-06-05T12:12:48.610

Hmm, are you sshing with the -X or -Y option?Otherwise you'll never be able to open a display. – Mathias711 – 2014-06-05T12:19:40.757

Isn't txjsonrpc needed for Armory? Im not into this material, but from what I read in the past couple of minutes I think it is. From there the txjsonrpc.auth you're missing should be added, and that error be resolved – Mathias711 – 2014-06-05T12:20:58.930

Yes true. It seems I need to install txjsonrpc. Can't figure out how to get it though. Thanks a lot btw – Emre Kenci – 2014-06-05T12:42:09.673

I just cloned the repo https://github.com/oubiwann/txjsonrpc to my BitcoinArmory folder but I still get the same error. I think I need to install it

– Emre Kenci – 2014-06-05T13:02:04.063