Anyone using Daedalus wallet on Ubuntu?

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Your pattern of activity arouses suspicion. Please tell us what your problem is, if you have one, and if you don’t, why are you here?

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I am also unable to install this application using standard commands. My file is permissioned to be executable.

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How do you run Daedalus AFTER the install? Cant figure it out. I am using Ubuntu Server

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I have tried installing on Ubuntu 20.4.2lts on a AMD 64 bit Ryzen 4Mhz quad core. I have downloaded Daedalus from the official website and verified signatures as per instructions,

I then used the terminal to install as follows below with the message

colin@colin-MS-7B84:~/Downloads/Daedalus$ sudo chmod a+x daedalus-4.2.0-mainnet-18540.bin
[sudo] password for colin:
colin@colin-MS-7B84:~/Downloads/Daedalus$ sudo ./daedalus-4.2.0-mainnet-18540.bin
SSE4 check pass
inside installer
source /nix/store/7nwaqld3zc67mdf79q1zq426f80h97hb-tarball/tarball/tarball.tar.xz
mkdir: created directory ‘/root’
mkdir: created directory ‘/root/.daedalus’
313MiB 0:00:20 [15.2MiB/s] [====================================================================================================> ] 99%
warning: the group ‘nixbld’ specified in ‘build-users-group’ does not exist

and a whole lot more checking contents line below…

I need to go look at commands and the see if I understand the process installing from bin file… I see there is mention on the 7nwaqld3zc67mdf79q1zq426f80h97hb-tarball/tarball/tarball.tar.xz which I am a bit more familiar with installing from…

I’m no expert and nervous playing with commands not fully understanding what they all do, so need to go check up on “build-user-groups” does not exist issue… unless I’ve made a silly mistake.

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You should not be using sudo to install daedalus.

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General Guidelines:

  • ONLY Download Daedalus from https://daedaluswallet.io/
  • After download follow the verification instructions provided
  • You should never use sudo (or root) for anything unless you must

Install Guidelines (Ubuntu or other flavors of Linux):

Open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and enter the following commands.

cd ~/Downloads
chmod u+x daedalus-4.2.0-mainnet-18540.bin
./daedalus-4.2.0-mainnet-18540.bin

Hint: TAB key will autocomplete file paths so you only need to type the first part of daedalus then press TAB to fill in the rest. If there is more than one match press TAB again to see them all and pick the one you want.

After it finishes extracting / installing a new desktop entry in your applications will launch Daedalus but you can also use the terminal!

Explanation for Terminal newbies:

  • cd is the command to “change directory” to a new path like opening a directory in desktop UI
  • ~ (tilde) is the shortcut for your user’s home directory
  • ~/Downloads is the default download location on Ubuntu but this should be the directory path your browser is configured to use on your system
  • chmod is the command to “change mode” for file permissions like accessing file properties in UI
  • the options u+x are short codes to “add” the “execute” permission for the “user” on the following file
  • prefixing ./ to a file path is a shortcut to execute it (only if it has execute permission)
  • You can enter the command man before a command or --help option after a command to learn a lot more about everything the terminal commands can do. e.g. man chmod will give you a lot to read about.
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@erikd, Thanks for the advice… I followed https://iohk.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/900000776446-Installing-Daedalus-2-0-1-Mainnet-on-Linux- and have now got the non sudo user with Daedalus installed. The Sync of bolcks took a while but it’s up and running now.

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