guggero/bitcoin-core-qt

A bitcoin-core docker image that can run the QT GUI

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• latest (Dockerfile)

This image uses the latest image of ruimarinho/bitcoin-core and adds the debian dependencies that are necessary to run the QT graphical interface.

Usage

How to use this image

To start a X application in docker, some extra steps are necessary:

XSOCK=/tmp/.X11-unix
XAUTH=/tmp/.docker-xauth

# allow local connections to connect to X server display
xauth nlist ${DISPLAY} | sed -e 's/^..../ffff/' | xauth -f ${XAUTH} nmerge -
xhost local:

# run the image
docker run -ti \
  --rm \
  -e "XAUTHORITY=${XAUTH}" \
  -v /home/$USER/.bitcoin:/home/bitcoin/.bitcoin \
  -v ${XAUTH}:${XAUTH} \
  -v ${XSOCK}:${XSOCK} \
  guggero/bitcoin-core-qt

See ruimarinho/bitcoin-core for more examples.