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# Qubic Linux Mining Tutorial
**1. Acquire sub-account**
In order to earn qus, one must mine to a sub-account. Head over to [https://www.apool.io ](https://www.apool.io/)to finish email registration.
Apool will allocate a sub-account automatically under your name. Check out your sub-account name in 'My miners' page.
**2. Download the mining software**
* Download link：[https://github.com/apool-io/apoolminer/releases](qubic2.hk.apool.io:3334)
* Extract the file with the comand：
```
tar -xvf apoolminer_linux_v2.4.3.tar
```
**3. Configure the mining parameters**
Open the configuration file according to your mining type:
* Mining with CPU only
```
nano run_qubic_cpu.sh
```
* Mining with GPU only
```
nano run_qubic_gpu.sh
```
* Mining with GPU and CPU
```
nano run_qubic_all.sh
```
Basic Parameters:
* 'account' specify the sub-account name, replace it with your own sub-account;
* 'pool' specify the pool address: qubic1.hk.apool.io:3334
* 'worker' specify the mining machine name, which use the machine ip default, and can be customized by the users, the naming rules are：can be up to 15 characters or less, and can contain alphanumeric characters (letters A-Z, numbers 0-9) and symbols.
CPU Performance Parameters:
* -t, –thread; specify the number of CPU thread \[default: 0, use all threads]
*Huge Pages*(on Linux), also known as *Large Pages* (on Windows) is another important thing for CPU mining, typical hashrate increase is 8% when huge pages used, if you didn't set huge pages, you will see lines with text like bellow in miner log.
**4. Execute the command to start mining**
* Mining with CPU only
```
./run_qubic_cpu.sh
```
* Mining with GPU only
```
./run_qubic_gpu.sh
```
* Mining with GPU and CPU
```
./run_qubic_all.sh
```
**5. Execute the command to check the mining process**
```
tail -f qubic.log
```
**6. Watch the Statistics and earn QU's on Apool**
