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Using bitcoin-qt on Fedora, CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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Berkeley DB
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On all platforms, including RHEL/CentOS/Fedora and the upstream build, bitcoin
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uses Berkeley DB 4.8.
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Oracle makes clear that binary compatibility is not guaranteed even between minor
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releases of Berkeley DB. This has implications if you move your wallet to and
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from a system with a different Berkeley DB version.
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It is strongly recommended that if you change Berkeley DB versions you first
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dump your wallet from the old system into a text file, and then import the
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wallet into the new system.
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To dump your wallet on the old system:
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In the Bitcoin GUI, click the Help menu then select Debug Window. In the debug
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window, click Console, and enter the command:
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dumpwallet path/to/filename.txt
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Copy filename.txt from the old system to the new system, being aware that it
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is not encrypted and taking appropriate precautions.
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To import your wallet on the new system:
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In the Bitcoin GUI, click the Help menu then select Debug Window. In the debug
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window, click Console, and enter the command:
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importwallet path/to/filename.txt
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Bitcoin will automatically begin rescanning the block chain after the import is
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complete. The rescan will take several minutes, depending on the speed of the
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system's CPU and hard drives.
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