How to Install bfgminer software package in Debian 8 (Jessie)

How to Install bfgminer software package in Debian 8 (Jessie)

bfgminer software package provides multi-threaded multi-pool ASIC, FPGA and GPU bitcoin miner, you can install in your Debian 8 (Jessie) by running the commands given below on the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install bfgminer 

bfgminer is installed in your system.

Make ensure the bfgminer package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep bfgminer *

You will get with bfgminer package name, version, architecture and description in a table

bfgminer package basic information:

Distro Debian 8 jessie
Section Network
Package bfgminer
Version 4.7.0+dfsg-2
Description multi-threaded multi-pool ASIC, FPGA and GPU bitcoin miner
Sub Section Net


See Also, How to uninstall or remove bfgminer software package from Debian 8 (Jessie)?