How to install and verify Electrum bitcoin wallet on Linux

Details Lubos Rendek 24 September 2018 Contents

Objective

The objective is to download, verify and install Electrum bitcoin wallet on Linux

Operating System and Software Versions

• Operating System: – Ubuntu 17.10 or later
• Software: – Electrum-3.0.3 or later

Requirements

Privileged root access will be required to perform the installation.

Difficulty

EASY

Conventions

• # – requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either directly as a root user or by use of sudo command
• $ – requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged user

Instructions

In the first step, we will be downloading the latest Electrum Bitcoin wallet along with a verification signature. The current version at the day of writing is Electrum 3.0.3. Visithttps://electrum.org/to check for a latest Electrum version and amend the below installation procedure appropriately to reflect your downloaded source code version: $ wget https://download.electrum.org/3.0.3/Electrum-3.0.3.tar.gz https://download.electrum.org/3.0.3/Electrum-3.0.3.tar.gz.asc

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Verify Electrum’s downloaded source code

At this stage, we are ready to verify Electrum’s source code. The source code is signed by Thomas Voegtlin (https://electrum.org). Let’s import a relevantkey signature:$ gpg –keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net –recv-keys 2BD5824B7F9470E6 gpg: key 2BD5824B7F9470E6: public key “Thomas Voegtlin (https://electrum.org) ” imported gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: imported: 1 Confirm a correct key import as perLINE 2. Once the key has been imported it is time to perform the verification:$ gpg –verify Electrum-3.0.3.tar.gz.asc Electrum-3.0.3.tar.gz gpg: Signature made Tue 12 Dec 2017 17:06:09 AEDT gpg: using RSA key 2BD5824B7F9470E6 gpg: Good signature from “Thomas Voegtlin (https://electrum.org) ” [unknown] gpg: aka “ThomasV ” [unknown] gpg: aka “Thomas Voegtlin ” [unknown] gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature! gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner. Primary key fingerprint: 6694 D8DE 7BE8 EE56 31BE D950 2BD5 824B 7F94 70E6 Notegpg: Good signatureonLine 4. All seems to be in order!

Install Electrum

To install Electrum bitcoin wallet, we first need to preform an installation of all prerequisites: $ sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools python3-pyqt5 python3-pip And finally, install Electrum bitcoin wallet using the bellow command: $ sudo pip3 install Electrum-3.0.3.tar.gz

Start Electrum bitcoin Wallet

Electrum bitcoin wallet is now installed. You can start it from your start menu by clicking on the Electrum wallet icon or by executingelectrumcommand from your terminal: $ electrum Navigate to the following page to learn how to create aBitcoin offline/paper wallet.

Source

L’articolo How to install and verify Electrum bitcoin wallet on Linux proviene da #Adessonews Finanziamenti Agevolazioni Norme e Tributi.