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title: 'Re: Command Line and JSON-RPC'
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date: 2010-02-24 06:17:23 UTC
original: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=60.msg446#msg446
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# Re: Command Line and JSON-RPC
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<code>Re: Command Line and JSON-RPC
February 24, 2010, 06:17:23 AM

<a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=63.msg467#msg467">Quote from: theymos on February 24, 2010, 03:07:37 AM</a>
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<a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=63.msg452#msg452">Quote from: satoshi on February 23, 2010, 10:15:41 PM</a>
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   On Linux it needs libgtk2.0-0 installed
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Will this requirement be removed sometime? I'd rather not have to deal with GTK.
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How much "dealing with" does GTK actually require?  Is it just a matter of "sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0" and having some extra libraries sitting around?  GTK doesn't have to do anything, just be there for bitcoin to link to when it loads up, have the gtk-init-check call fail because no GUI present, then it's done. 

It saves us butchering everything with ifdefs and a separate compile and binary to use wxBase just to try to avoid linking GTK.

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