Cross Platform Restore - Windows / Linux Wallets

grunkern · January 12, 2018, 8:27am

I had a windows machine with Litecoin Wallet on it. Disk went down. So after time have recovered litecoin folder and also the litecoin.dat file.

Windows machine is non-usable at present so new machine is Linux Ubuntu 16.04

So Firstly I am struggling to get a working install of the GUI Wallet on Ubuntu 16.04, then secondly I cannot see where I would restore the liecoin.dat file from, which exists on Windows and to which directory on Linux
Any help appreciated

Thanks
Robert A Williams

mautematico · January 13, 2018, 3:05am

Right path for wallet.dat in litecoin ubuntu is

~/.litecoin/wallet.dat or /home/{username}/.litecoin/wallet.dat

grunkern · January 13, 2018, 12:33pm

Thanks mautematico could you point me to a resource to install litecoin wallet on Ubuntu 16.04 as struggling with that and cannot seem to find much online
Cheers
Robert A Williams

mautematico · January 13, 2018, 7:37pm

I use Debian rather than Ubuntu.
But you can use this script I just worte for that propouse. It should work just fine in Ubuntu as well.

github.com

mautematico/init/blob/master/update.d/litecoin-qt

#!/usr/bin/env bash
echo "removing old litecoin-qt version"
rm -rf /opt/litecoin
echo "downloading new litecoin-qt version"
ltc_ver="0.14.2"
ltc_url="https://download.litecoin.org/litecoin-${ltc_ver}/linux/litecoin-${ltc_ver}-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz"
echo "ltc url is: $ltc_url"
wget -qO - "${ltc_url}" | tar -zxvf - -C /opt/
mv -v "/opt/litecoin-$ltc_ver" /opt/litecoin

Please take a minute to read the script.
It first deletes old litecoin-qt version, if installed at /opt/litecoin
Then, it downloads v0.14.2 from official website, and extracts it to /opt/
Last, it puts uncompressed version at /opt/litecoin

After running the script, you can start litecoin by typing this on a terminal window:
/opt/litecoin/bin/litecoin-qt

Please note that, by writing files to /opt/, this script needs to be run as sudo

Hope it helps.

grunkern · January 13, 2018, 8:08pm

That’s great thanks

Works fantastic, now loading the LTC wallet

Thanks so much
Robert

mautematico · January 13, 2018, 8:30pm

You are welcome.
Hope you recover all your LTC.

Tips appreciated
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Also github pull request to improve the script appreciated.