Is there a program to mine bitcoins in ubuntu 13.10?

Solution 1:

Yes. http://bitcoin.org/en/download

However, Bitcoin mining now requires EXTREMELY more sophisticated hardware than it did at the onset of Bitcoin; FPGAs and GPUs have outpaced using a simple CPU for the computation, and since all of the easy computations to get a Bitcoin have been done. there's a curve of decreasing returns to make more. Charles Stross explains it well, if vehemently, here.

You may find https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining useful in considering if it is practical for you and whether you will make more cash money than you spend in electricity to run the PC, especially since nowadays it seems to be the outfits which sell Bitcoin mining machines http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-11-14/2014-outlook-bitcoin-mining-chips-a-high-tech-arms-race who are making the money http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/14/firm_makes_3million_during_bitcoin_gold_rush/ as the previous two links show. It's like the California Gold Rush. Who made the money? The storekeepers who sold mining equipment and supplies to the miners, not the miners themselves.

Solution 2:

Try to use bfgminer

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:unit3/bfgminer

then:

sudo apt-get update 

Finally:

sudo apt-get install bfgminer 

More info (spanish) http://probandoubuntu.blogspot.com/2013/12/bfgminer-una-forma-mas-facil-de-minar.html