<p>At the top of this tutorial they say: This guide assumes you’re on MacOS, comfortable with terminal, already have a <strong>Bitcoin Full Node</strong> running on Raspberry Pi 3 (optionally with Tor) and now you want to also add a c-lightning node to it.</p>

<p><em>bitcoind.service not found</em> means that you don't have bitcoin-core installed.</p>

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I have launched bitcoind as user "pi" and I can see the progressive blockchain syncronization (not still ended) in debug.log.
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<p>I followed the tutorial <a href="https://medium.com/@meeDamian/c-lightning-node-on-rbp3-b950660fb835" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://medium.com/@meeDamian/c-lightning-node-on-rbp3-b950660fb835</a> without error.
When I type:
 sudo systemctl start lightningd 
I get 
 Failed to start lightningd.service: Unit bitcoind.service not found.</p>

<p>Note: Blockchain syncronization is not finished</p>

<p>Any idea?
thank you</p>

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Failed to start lightningd.service: Unit bitcoind.service not found
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# Failed to start lightningd.service: Unit bitcoind.service not found

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-08-19)

I followed the tutorial <https://medium.com/@meeDamian/c-lightning-node-on-rbp3-b950660fb835> without error.
When I type:
sudo systemctl start lightningd
I get
Failed to start lightningd.service: Unit bitcoind.service not found.

Note: Blockchain syncronization is not finished

Any idea?
thank you

**Tags:** lightning-network


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2018-08-19. Score: 0

At the top of this tutorial they say: This guide assumes you’re on MacOS, comfortable with terminal, already have a **Bitcoin Full Node** running on Raspberry Pi 3 (optionally with Tor) and now you want to also add a c-lightning node to it.

*bitcoind.service not found* means that you don't have bitcoin-core installed.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: I have launched bitcoind as user "pi" and I can see the progressive blockchain syncronization (not still ended) in debug.log.  

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