How To Install electrum on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install electrum
on Debian 12.
What is electrum
electrum is:
This package provides a lightweight Bitcoin client which protects you from losing your bitcoins in a backup mistake or computer failure. Also, Electrum does not require waiting time because it does not download the Bitcoin blockchain.
Features of Electrum:
- Instant on: Your client does not download the blockchain. It uses a network of specialized servers that index the blockchain.
- Forgiving: Your wallet can be recovered from a secret seed.
- Safe: Your seed and private keys are encrypted on your hard drive. They are never sent to the servers.
- Low trust: Information received from the servers is verified using SPV. Servers are authenticated using SSL.
- No downtimes: Your client is not tied to a particular server; it will switch instantly if your server is down.
- Ubiquitous: You can use the same wallet on different computers, they will synchronize automatically.
- Cold Storage: Sign transactions from a computer that is always offline. Broadcast them using a machine that does not have your keys.
- Reachable: You can export your private keys into other Bitcoin clients.
- Established: Electrum is open source and was first released in November 2011.
There are three methods to install electrum
on Debian 12. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install electrum Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install electrum
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install electrum
Install electrum Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install electrum
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install electrum
Install electrum Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install electrum
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install electrum
How To Uninstall electrum on Debian 12
To uninstall only the electrum
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove electrum
Uninstall electrum And Its Dependencies
To uninstall electrum
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove electrum
Remove electrum Configurations and Data
To remove electrum
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge electrum
Remove electrum configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove electrum
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge electrum
Dependencies
electrum have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install electrum
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.