I need some help figuring out how to install electrum-2.1.1 on Tails 1.4 without messing anything up. Need the multi-sig features for my first purchase. Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated!
Electrum-2.1.1 on Tails 1.4, help!
I need some help figuring out how to install electrum-2.1.1 on Tails 1.4 without messing anything up. Need the multi-sig features for my first purchase. Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated!
[7 Points] ziz1:
[1 Points] 1mm0m:
This should work:
Make .local dir on persistent volume (will be symlinked into ~ on next boot)
export dotfiles="/live/persistence/TailsData_unlocked/dotfiles/"
export PYTHONUSERBASE="$dotfiles/.python"
mkdir -p "$PYTHONUSERBASE"
Install Electrum to it
pip install --user "https://download.electrum.org/Electrum-2.1.1.tar.gz"
Move your .bashrc and .bash_profile to dotfiles
mv -t "$dotfiles" ~/.bash{rc,_profile}
Append PYTHONUSERBASE to PATH in .bash_profile
cat <<EOF >>"$dotfiles/.bash_profile"
export PYTHONUSERBASE="$PYTHONUSERBASE"
export PATH="\$PATH:\$PYTHONUSERBASE/bin"
EOF
Reboot
Run Electrum. I'm not sure what the command will be but look in ~/.python/bin
[1 Points] youtakesally:
If you can't get through all this steps (which are a pain in the ass) you can use https://coinb.in/, which has all the features you want.
If you are using persistence, make a backup copy of your wallet file before attempting this. The upgrade will convert it to a format that is not readable by 1.9.8. If you have the seed words, you will be able to recreate the wallet minus any labels you have given to the receive bitcoin addresses.
You can access your current wallet file from the file manager like this:
Places > Home Folder
View > Show Hidden Files
Double click on ".electrum"
Double click on "wallets"
Right click on "default_wallet" (or other wallets if you have them) and select copy.
Paste it to /home/amnesia/Persistent
Download "Electrum-2.1.1.tar.gz" from https://electrum.org/#download (under "Installation from Python sources") to /home/amnesia/Tor Browser" on Tails.
Using the file manager copy it to /home/amnesia/Persistent.
Right click on it and select "Extract Here".
Start a command line terminal window (small black box on top left menu bar) and type the following commands.
The following "rm" command will remove the old Electrum config file. If this is not done, the new version of Electrum will crash at start up:
When it starts up, you need to configure the network so that it can connect through Tor.
Make these settings:
Shut down Electrum
After you get it running and connected, you can restart it next time from the file manager.
Places > Persistent > Electrum-2.1.1
Double click on "electrum".
Select "Run".