Noel Maersk 958c04e79a doc: crypto/secp256k1 GMP dependency package name.

Linux build documentation is mostly geared towards Ubuntu 14.04 (LTS).
Appropriate package is called `libgmp-dev` there.

Note that on pristine installations building `geth` with godep will
fail because this header is missing. This is not documented in the
top-level README, but is on the wiki:

https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/wiki/Installation-Instructions-for-Ubuntu#building-geth-command-line-client

That page recommends `libgmp3-dev`, which ATM provides same version
as `libgmp-dev`.

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secp256k1-go

golang secp256k1 library

Implements cryptographic operations for the secp256k1 ECDSA curve used by Bitcoin.

Installing

GMP library headers are required to build. On Debian-based systems, the package is called libgmp-dev.

sudo apt-get install libgmp-dev

Now compiles with cgo!

Test

To run tests do

go tests

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secp256k1-go

Installing

Test

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