Hi, indeed the GUI is not necessary.
I've just checked on Sid, and the console version of the program is easy to compile. I just had to : $ sudo apt-get install build-essential libboost-all-dev libssl-dev libdb-dev libdb4.8++-dev libglib2.0-dev and then run : ../bitcoin/src $ make -f makefile.unix bitcoind
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