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This guild covers VPS setting up, compiling cpuminer and running pool or solo mining.

1) Set up a VPS server.

2) Get the login information from the email received (IP and password), typically
Code:
ssh root@IP
This is a command to ssh login the VPS. You'lll need to figure out ssh, for example, http://www.putty.org/ for windows. 

3) Once login, copy and paste the following commands (you can choose different username than magi)
Code:
adduser magi
follow instructions to set up a user (only need to create password)

Code:
/usr/sbin/visudo
edit this section (add line"magi ..."):
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## User privilege specification
root    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL 
magi   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

4) Exit and ssh again with (i.e., regular user login rather prior root user)
Code:
ssh magi@IP

5) Upgrade and install packages:
Code:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install git screen automake build-essential libboost-all-dev libdb5.1-dev libdb5.1++-dev libminiupnpc-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libgmp-dev
(input your password if asking)

6) This is a need if you choose 512 M memory during VPS creation
Code:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=64M count=16
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile

Turn on swap permanently by adding it to the fstab file:
Code:
sudo nano /etc/fstab
 /swapfile       none    swap    sw      0       0

DON'T do the following steps unless you know what they mean: 
Code:
sudo swapon -s
sudo swapoff /swapfile
sudo rm /swapfile

7) Compile cpuminer (copy and past following command)
Code:
cd
git clone https://github.com/noncepool/m7magi-cpuminer-v2
cd m7magi-cpuminer-v2
./autogen.sh
CFLAGS="-O3" ./configure
make
sudo cp minerd /usr/local/bin
(notice any errors, let me know if you stuck somewhere)

8-) Pool mining
We need put the miner a screen session so it will run even when we logout VPS:
Code:
screen -S magi
To use Nonce-pool: 
Code:
minerd -o stratum+tcp://mine2.magi.nonce-pool.com:4090 -u <username> -p <password>
To use Suprnova pool: 
Code:
minerd -o stratum+tcp://xmg.suprnova.cc:7128 -u <username> -p <password>
<username> and <password> are the worker and password you setup in the pool (check the pool website for info; ask me if you don't know how to set it up)
Press “CTRL+a” and then press “D” to detach from the screen session (get back to prior command line). Under regular command line you can check if the screen section is alive:
Code:
screen -ls
If you remember (i.e., magi), simply issue
Code:
screen -r magi
to back to the mining screen. You logout/login to check if the mining is still going on. 
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Press “CTRL+A+D”;
Code:
exit
ssh magi@IP
screen -r magi

Basically you're done pool mining! 

If you interested to solo mining, please continue reading. 

9) Compile and run Magi wallet
Code:
cd
git clone https://github.com/magi-project/magi
cd magi/src
make -f makefile.unix
Create a conf file which should be in the folder: ~/.magi (magi is the user we created)
(magi.conf is not necessary, unless you will sole mine; use more complicated pass as you like)
Code:
cd ~/.magi
emacs magi.conf
emacs is text edit tool, use any you like. save the following content: 
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daemon=1
server=1
rpcport=8232
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcuser=rpcuser
rpcpassword=rpcpass

Code:
cd ~/magi/src
./magid &
The last command runs the daemon.

10) Solo mining
Code:
./minerd --url http://127.0.0.1:8232 --user rpcuser --pass rpcpass --threads <number of threads>
8232 is rpcport, rpcuser and rpcpass are user and password you set in magi.conf
set <number of threads> to a number, matching with the threads of your needs.