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I'm running a headless Raspberry Pi 4b connected to Ethernet and controlled via SSH from my MacBook Pro. I used scp to move XMRig for Linux over to it, preset to mine. However, when attempting to run the file with the command ./xmrig, it will not run and gives the following error:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ls
xmrig
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd xmrig
pi@raspberrypi:~/xmrig $ ls
xmrig-6.16.2
pi@raspberrypi:~/xmrig $ cd xmrig-6.16.2/
pi@raspberrypi:~/xmrig/xmrig-6.16.2 $ ls
config.json  SHA256SUMS  xmrig
pi@raspberrypi:~/xmrig/xmrig-6.16.2 $ ./xmrig
-bash: ./xmrig: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
pi@raspberrypi:~/xmrig/xmrig-6.16.2 $ 

What does this mean? Why won't it execute? Is there a version of XMRig for the Raspberry Pi specifically?

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If you use the Linux versions from Github for xmrig, they are all X64, not ARM. They are compild for a different processor and will therefore not run on the Pi.

So, unless you found a version specifically for the Pi, your best bet would be to download the source ans compile on th Pi. In the tar.gz for the sourcecode, there should be some read-me or install file that will give hints on how to compile and install it.

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    I did that and it's up and running, thanks! Dec 30, 2021 at 17:46

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