CREATE ADMIN PASSWORD
You need sudo privileges to install Wasabi, at “Tails Greeter” create your admin password in “additional settings” and launch Tails.
(Source: https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/welcome_screen/administration_password/index.en.html)
💡 If you don't want to activate root privileges, you can download Wasabi in .tar.gz format (other Linux) and extract it into the persistent storage.
This way, you can launch Wasabi from the terminal via ./wassabee command without installing any .deb package.
(Source: https://docs.wasabiwallet.io/using-wasabi/InstallPackage.html#other-linux)
DOWNLOAD
Download for Debian/Ubuntu from:
http://wasabiukrxmkdgve5kynjztuovbg43uxcbcxn6y2okcrsg7gb6jdmbad.onion (Tor onion link)
or
https://www.wasabiwallet.io/#download
Verify the PGP signature of the downloaded package. As of now (Bitcoin block 653435), the zkSNACKs' PGP key fingerprint is: 6FB3 872B 5D42 292F 5992 0797 8563 4832 8949 861E.
(Source: https://docs.wasabiwallet.io/using-wasabi/InstallPackage.html#debian-and-ubuntu)
You can now save your Wasabi-X.X.X.deb into the persistent storage, which at this point should look like this:
/Persistent
/bitcoin-0.20.1 (Bitcoin Core launcher folder)
/Bitcoin (Bitcoin Core data folder)
/Wasabi-X.X.X.deb (Wasabi installer)
WASABI DATA FOLDER
As of version 1.1.12 Wasabi doesn’t offer easy ways, especially without command line, to change install directory. There is though a quick workaround.
Wasabi saves session files in /Home/.walletwasabi/client, you need to mark the “show hidden files” setting to see it.
Create a directory in your persistent with the same hierarchical structure, like this:
/Persistent
/bitcoin-0.20.1 (Bitcoin Core launcher folder)
/Bitcoin (Bitcoin Core data folder)
/Wasabi-X.X.X.deb (Wasabi installer)
/.walletwasabi
/client (here we save our wallet files, filters and blocks)
After every session, when you’re done, navigate into /Home/.walletwasabi/client and copy the desired folders into your persistent directory.
Generally, you’d like to save the Wallets and Blocks folders.
The former contains your wallet information (e.g. keys, labels), while the latter includes the blocks needed to establish your balance.
Could be also nice to save the BitcoinStore folder, which contains the filters, so that you don’t have to download them again.
INSTALL WASABI
Copy and paste the Wasabi-X.X.X.deb file from /Home/Persistent into desktop.
Open the terminal and run:
$cd Desktop
$sudo dpkg -i Wasabi-X.X.X.deb
Type the password you created at “Tails Greeter”.
(Info about dpkg)
Wasabi will show as a normal application in your activities overview menu, ready to start.
- Press Windows key
- Type "wasabi"
- Launch it
LOAD FROM YOUR DATA DIRECTORY
After the first time you save a Wasabi session, your persistent storage will look like:
/Persistent
/bitcoin-0.20.1 (Bitcoin Core launcher folder)
/Bitcoin (Bitcoin Core data folder)
/Wasabi-X.X.X.deb (Wasabi installer)
/.walletwasabi
/client (here we save our wallet files, filters and blocks)
/Wallets (wallet files)
/Blocks (blocks)
/BitcoinStore (filters)
To load your saved session, copy and paste the .walletwasabi folder into /Home before starting Wasabi.
You can save multiple copies of .walletwasabi in your persistent, each with different data:
/Persistent
/bitcoin-0.20.1 (Bitcoin Core launcher folder)
/Bitcoin (Bitcoin Core data folder)
/Wasabi (General Wasabi folder)
/Wasabi-X.X.X.deb (Wasabi installer)
/BitcoinStore (No need to keep multiple copies of same filters)
/CoinJoin wallet
/.walletwasabi
/client (here we save our wallet files, filters and blocks)
/Wallets (wallet files)
/Blocks (blocks)
/watch-only coldstorage A
/.walletwasabi
/client (here we save our wallet files, filters and blocks)
/Wallets (wallet files)
/Blocks (blocks)
/watch-only coldstorage B
/.walletwasabi
/client (here we save our wallet files, filters and blocks)
/Wallets (wallet files)
/Blocks (blocks)
This is only a minor example, tune it to your own needs.
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