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@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ You've already seen one alternative way to access the Bitcoind's RPC ports: `cur
## Set Up libbitcoinrpc
> :warning: **WARNING** It appears that `libbitcoinrpc` has been entirely abandoned. We have logged updating this to a new C library as an [issue](https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Community/issues/140). In the meantime, the `libbitcoinrpc` library does not currently compile without intervention. As a result 16.1 and 16.2 is mainly viewable as pseudo-code that shows the process of integrating Bitcoin-Core with C.
To use `libbitcoinrpc`, you need to install a basic C setup and the dependent packages `libcurl`, `libjansson`, and `libuuid`. The following will do so on your Bitcoin Standup server (or any other Ubuntu server).
```
$ sudo apt-get install make gcc libcurl4-openssl-dev libjansson-dev uuid-dev
@ -26,8 +24,6 @@ $ sudo apt-get install git
$ git clone https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/libbitcoinrpc.git
```
> :warning: **WARNING** A change in the "signrawtransaction" RPC caused signing with `libbitcoinrpc` to segfault for Bitcoin 0.17 or higher. A [PR has been submitted](https://github.com/gitmarek/libbitcoinrpc/pull/1) to resolve the problem, but if it hasn't yet been merged, you can just make the one simple change in the source code to `src/bitcoinrpc_method.c` before compiling.
### Compiling libbitcoinrpc
Before you can compile and install the package, you'll probably need to adjust your `$PATH`, so that you can access `/sbin/ldconfig`: