# Wasabi Setup on Tails
This essay is extracted from this step by step guide, which also includes tutorials on how to install Tails, create a persistent storage and use Bitcoin Core alongside with it.
# 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/startup_options/administration_password/index.en.html
# DOWNLOAD
Download for Debian/Ubuntu from:
http://wasabiukrxmkdgve5kynjztuovbg43uxcbcxn6y2okcrsg7gb6jdmbad.onion (tor hidden service)
or
https://www.wasabiwallet.io/#download
Verify the PGP signature of the downloaded package, the zkSNACKs' PGP public key fingerprint is:
6FB3 872B 5D42 292F 5992 0797 8563 4832 8949 861E
gpg -v Wasabi-1.1.9.2.deb
(For more details check this guide)
You can now save your Wasabi-1.1.9.2.deb
into the persistent storage, which should look like this:
/Persistent
|__ /bitcoin-0.18.1 # Bitcoin Core launcher folder
|__ /Bitcoin # Bitcoin Core data folder
|__ /Wasabi-1.1.9.2.deb # Wasabi installer
# WASABI DATA FOLDER
As of version 1.1.9 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-0.18.1 # Bitcoin Core launcher folder
|__ /Bitcoin # Bitcoin Core data folder
|__ /Wasabi-1.1.9.2.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 BIP 158 block filters, so that you don’t have to download them again.
# INSTALL WASABI
Drop the Wasabi-1.1.9.2.deb
file from /Home/Persistent
into desktop.
Open the terminal and run:
cd Desktop
sudo dpkg -i Wasabi-1.1.9.2.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-0.18.1 # Bitcoin Core launcher folder
|__ /Bitcoin # Bitcoin Core data folder
|__ /Wasabi-1.1.9.2.deb # Wasabi installer
|__ /.walletwasabi
|__ /client # Here we save our wallet files, blocks and filters
|__ /Wallets
|__ /Blocks
|__ /BitcoinStore
To load your saved session, drop the .walletwasabi
folder into /Home
before starting Wasabi.
You can save multiple copies of .walletwasabi
in your persistent, each with different data:
/Persistent
|__ /bitcoin-0.18.1 # Bitcoin Core launcher folder
|__ /Bitcoin # Bitcoin Core data folder
|__ /Wasabi # General Wasabi folder
|__ /Wasabi-1.1.9.2.deb # Wasabi installer
|__ /BitcoinStore # Filters (No need to keep multiple copies of them)
|__ /CoinJoin wallet
| |__ /.walletwasabi
| |__ /client # Here we save our wallet files and blocks
| |__ /Wallets
| |__ /Blocks
|__ /watch-only coldstorage A
| |__ /.walletwasabi
| |__ /client
| |__ /Wallets
| |__ /Blocks
|__ /watch-only coldstorage B
|__ /.walletwasabi
|__ /client
|__ /Wallets
|__ /Blocks
This is only a minor example, tune it to your own needs.
WARNING
Remember to backup either your files or your persistent storage!
# Script to automatically install Wasabi on Tails
Alternatively, you can use this script made by permabull, which, after downloading Wasabi by following step 2, automatically installs Wasabi from the persistent folder and moves the wallet you wanna open (or all of them) by user input:
#!/bin/bash
sudo dpkg -i Wasabi-1.1.9.2.deb
wassabee </dev/null &>/dev/null &
sleep 5s
pkill wassabee
echo "*********************"
ls -1 -d */
echo "*********************"
while true
do
read -p "Enter wallet to open: " wallet_name
FOLDER="$wallet_name"
if [ -d "$FOLDER" ]
then
echo "$FOLDER wallet found."
cd "$FOLDER"/.walletwasabi/
cp -r client/* ~/.walletwasabi/client
echo "Your files have been moved to wasabi folder"
break
else
echo ""$FOLDER" wallet doesn't exist"
continue
fi
done
wassabee </dev/null &>/dev/null &