This might work


Replace gcc-4.6 with your current gcc version.

wow it looks like it is actually working now!! i cannot wait and is the command to mine?

./bitmonerod --start-mining MRO_address --mining-threads number_of_threads

i cannot thank you enough this was bugging me all day and im not that savvy with linux

You probably want to download the linux blockchain and put it into ~/.bitmonero to save a huge amount of sync time. That is the right command. If it doesn't start mining after you are synced type into bitmonerod
And then you can view your hashrate by typing

so this is the command i used

wget -o blockchain.bin https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B7RQILpPGrQbUGthNmVJM3RCNDQ&export=download

and this is the error im getting

 wget: blockchain.bin: Permission denied
JM3RCNDQ&export=downloaduc?id=0B7RQILpPGrQbUGthNmV


thats what it looks like??  any ideas

i cant see it either thats whats happening.... im just copying and pasteing.. got everything figured out but this why is this such a pain for me.

I am baffled by the complete lack of instructions for the software associated with this coin. Can someone put some instructions on how to get started with the wallet and mining? I am sure there is something within one of these 80+ pages but do we all have to reinvent the wheel?

So if one can't see the distribution of this coin how do we know there wasn't a giant premine or some way for the devs to just "counterfeit" coins en masse?  

To answer that question, we must first establish what you mean by "premine".  Mining has been available to the community from inception.  That is the opposite of what is usually meant by "premine".  The community was small at inception, but grew very rapidly.  These facts are easily learned by reviewing the forum history, the block chain.  I would be much more concerned that the bulk of the coins are likely being mined by botnets.

You don't have to have a web-based blockchain explorer. Type "help" in the daemon and you can get the commands to print out blockchain data right on the terminal. An explorer doesn't give unaccessible information either here or in Bitcoin. It's just an aggregator.