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+**Perform the following steps on both your online and offline computers:**
+
+Install the pip Python installer:
+
+		$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
+
+Install required Python modules:
+
+		$ sudo pip install ecdsa scrypt pycrypto bitcoin-python
+
+Install MMGen:
+
+		$ git clone https://github.com/mmgen/mmgen.git
+		$ cd mmgen; sudo ./setup.py install
+
+Install vanitygen (optional but recommended):
+
+		$ git clone https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen.git
+		(build and put the "keyconv" executable in your path)
+
+At this point you can begin trying out MMGen, creating a test wallet and
+generating keys as described in **Using MMGen** below.  To be able to track
+addresses and create and sign transactions, however, you'll need to have
+bitcoin daemons installed on your online and offline machines.
+
+#### Install the offline bitcoind:
+
+Instructions [here][01].
+
+#### Install the online bitcoind:
+
+The bitcoin daemon on the **online machine**, a.k.a. the "watch-only" bitcoind,
+is used for tracking addresses and requires the full blockchain.  For this, a
+more powerful computer is desirable.  In particular, importing addresses is
+especially CPU-intensive.  You'll also need plenty of free disk space for the
+rapidly-growing blockchain (~20GB at the time of writing).
+
+The standard bitcoin daemon at present lacks the watch-only address support we
+need, so you'll have to get and compile a patched version by Bitcoin core
+developer Pieter Wuille, aka Sipa.  Fortunately, it builds out of the box
+when the proper dependencies are installed.
+
+The boost development packages are the dependencies you're most likely to be
+missing.  Check that the following are on your system (package names may vary;
+the version should be 1.48 or greater):
+
+		libboost-system-dev
+		libboost-filesystem-dev
+		libboost-program-options-dev
+		libboost-chrono-dev
+		libboost-test-dev
+		libboost-thread-dev
+
+Download the bitcoin-watchonly [zip archive][00] (commit #a13f1e8 [[check][]])
+from GitHub, configure, and build:
+
+		$ unzip watchonly.zip
+		$ cd bitcoin-watchonly
+		$ ./autogen.sh
+		$ ./configure (add --with-incompatible-bdb if libdb version > 4.8)
+		$ make -j4 src/bitcoind
+
+With your online machine connected to the Internet, start the freshly compiled
+daemon and let it synchronize the blockchain, taking care to **move any
+existing wallet.dat out of harm's way** beforehand.  You'll use the new wallet
+created by the daemon upon startup as your **tracking wallet**.
+
+Congratulations!  Your MMGen installation is now complete.
+
+[00]: https://codeload.github.com/sipa/bitcoin/zip/watchonly
+[01]: Install-the-Offline-Bitcoind
+[check]: https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin/tree/watchonly