Installation

There are a number of ways to obtain cardano-wallet.

Daedalus installer

The cardano-wallet backend is included in the Daedalus installation. This is convenient if you already have Daedalus installed, but the version of cardano-wallet may not be the latest.

Pre-built binaries from GitHub release page

Release builds of cardano-wallet for Linux, macOS, and Windows are available at: https://github.com/cardano-foundation/cardano-wallet/releases

These release bundles include the recommended version of cardano-node, according to the release matrix.

Direct download URLS

The release packages can be downloaded directly from the github servers using a command-line tool like wget or cURL. For example, one can download and unpack a pre-packaged linux binary for cardano-wallet@v2020-04-07 with:

> curl -L https://github.com/cardano-foundation/cardano-wallet/releases/download/v2020-04-07/cardano-wallet-v2020-04-07-linux64.tar.gz | tar xvz

Docker

See Docker.

Nix/NixOS

See NixOS.

Compile from source

See Building.

If you feel brave enough and want to compile everything from sources, please refer to Building , or the equivalent documentation in each source repository (instructions often appear in README.md).

As a pre-requisite, you may want to install and configure Nix or cabal, depending on your weapon of choice.

Summary