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Expand Up @@ -70,23 +70,22 @@ You will also need a version of bitcoind with segregated witness and `estimatesm

## To Build on Ubuntu

OS version: Ubuntu 15.10 or above
OS version: Ubuntu 22.04 or above

Get dependencies:
```shell
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y \
jq autoconf automake build-essential git libtool libsqlite3-dev libffi-dev \
python3 python3-pip net-tools zlib1g-dev libsodium-dev gettext lowdown
pip3 install --upgrade pip
sudo apt update
sudo ln -snf /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /etc/localtime && echo UTC > /etc/timezone
sudo apt install -y \
curl autoconf jq libsecp256k1-dev libsodium-dev automake build-essential git libtool libsqlite3-dev libffi-dev python3 python3-pip net-tools zlib1g-dev gettext pkg-config libssl-dev lowdown python3-mako
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
```

After installing uv, restart your shell or run `source ~/.bashrc` to ensure `uv` is in your PATH.
After installing uv, restart your shell or run `source ~/.local/bin/env` to ensure `uv` is in your PATH.

If you don't have Bitcoin installed locally you'll need to install that as well. It's now available via [snapd](https://snapcraft.io/bitcoin-core).
```shell
sudo apt-get install snapd
sudo apt install snapd
sudo snap install bitcoin-core
# Snap does some weird things with binary names; you'll
# want to add a link to them so everything works as expected
Expand All @@ -101,18 +100,19 @@ cd lightning

Checkout a release tag:
```shell
git checkout v25.02
git checkout v26.06
```

For development or running tests, get additional dependencies:
```shell
sudo apt-get install -y valgrind libpq-dev shellcheck cppcheck \
libsecp256k1-dev lowdown
sudo apt install -y valgrind libpq-dev shellcheck cppcheck
```

If you want to build the Rust plugins (cln-grpc, clnrest, cln-bip353 and wss-proxy):
```shell
sudo apt-get install -y cargo rustfmt protobuf-compiler
sudo apt install -y protobuf-compiler
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
source ~/.cargo/env
```

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