How use litecoincash core wallet on linux

in #cryptocurrency7 years ago

So litecoincash is out. Let's not waste time in what it's and what is not, this post is a simple guide to start and run litecoincash core wallet in a gnu/linux machine. I'm using debian. The wallet will not be installed system wide, but used in a folder as a user process, so no root is required and risk of affecting the system is minimal. If you still don't feel confident, just run it in a virtual machine.

  • OPTIONAL: download the bootstrap for the wallet syncing from here. This will speed up the syncing of the wallet, which may take several hours. I'd recommend using torrent, me and many others are doing our best to seed.
    download torrent.png
  • download the wallet from the website
    download wallet.png

  • extract it either by right clicking on the folder and "extract" or cd into the folder and tar -xf litecoincash-0.15.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz

  • cd into the folder or go normally into the folder and open terminal there
    open terminal here.png

  • once in the folder with the terminal type ./litecoincash-qt

  • You will be asked where to place the data dir. I'd say stick for the common and put it in ~/.litecoincash

  • Add a list of peers to the wallet. Settings > Options > Open configuration file and paste the following. Be careful: it could be dangerous to add malicious nodes, so I'm posting this here in good faith and it is my personal node list, but do your own research and see who to trust. This will speed it up quite much.

addnode=5.189.170.196:62458
addnode=159.89.6.189:62458
addnode=73.130.131.19
addnode=207.201.218.201
addnode=70.160.76.254
addnode=24.99.21.129
addnode=103.69.195.170
addnode=69.143.82.147:62458
addnode=192.111.148.136:62458
addnode=178.62.215.167:62458
addnode=80.108.41.4:62458
addnode=46.43.9.237:62458
addnode=144.202.8.82:62458
addnode=35.231.82.152:62458
addnode=54.64.147.208:62458
addnode=35.189.144.78:62458
addnode=24.129.114.44:62458
addnode=46.101.118.113:62458
addnode=144.202.8.82:62458
addnode=45.63.89.33:62458
addnode=66.70.180.59:62458
addnode=108.249.146.109:62458
addnode=35.231.82.152:62458
addnode=178.62.215.167:62458
addnode=46.43.9.237:62458
addnode=[2001:0:5ef5:79fb:343a:3359:9c0e:cf4f]:62458
addnode=[2001:0:9d38:6abd:30a3:d24:7257:1b62]:62458
addnode=[2001:0:5ef5:79fb:4c0:1c6b:bfaa:7d71]:62458
addnode=[2001:0:5ef5:79fb:2431:906:e7d2:2abb]:62458
  • quit the wallet
  • place bootstrap.dat.zip in the ~/.litecoincash folder and extract it there either by right click > extract here or unzip bootstrap.dat.zip
    extract bootstrap.png
  • once is done, fire up the litecoincash-qt again.
  • If it doesn't quickly start syncing, quit it and start it like this:
    ./litecoincash-qt -datadir=/home/user/.litecoincash -loadblock=/home/user/.litecoincash/bootstrap.dat

Use absolute path as I've seen that using ~ as /home/user/ is not recognized.

Let it sync, it will take few hours

  • After it's synced and all, just click on file > import private key and import your private keys.
    Import private key
    ATTENTION: DON'T PUT HERE ANY KEY HOLDING ANY LTC! If the address you had at the snapshot time (block 1371111) still has some ltc, empty it before importing that priv key into litecoincash core. Play it safe.
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Excellent post, very helpful! My bootstrap.dat file just wouldn't load, and the command you mentioned above really saved me!!

no problem man, glad to be of some help :)

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