Following the instructions for Ubuntu, zcashd doesn’t work on Ubuntu 14.04, only on 16.04. It’s probably worth adding this to the documentation somewhere.
The error one gets on 14.04 is:
zcashd: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgomp.so.1: version `GOMP_4.0’ not found (required by zcashd)
It works fine on 14.04
Have you
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get update
And installed all the dependencies needed?
This is from following the instructions at Home · zcash/zcash Wiki · GitHub
I had no worries building from source.
It doesn’t mention to do sudo apt-get upgrade, but I’ll try that next time I’m on a 14 machine, thx for the tip.
I am using 14.04 too. Works fine.
Did you install gcc 4.9 (as it requires libgomp >= 4.9)?