Installation Instructions

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/input-output-hk/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/input-output-hk/cardano-wallet/releases/download/v2020-04-07/cardano-wallet-v2020-04-07-linux64.tar.gz | tar xvz

Docker

See Docker.

Nix/NixOS

See Nix/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