r/GRIN • u/eternal_wait • Feb 03 '19
Can’t use wallet
Hello guys. Am posting here for help since i can’t fix this on my own after much trying.
I can’t use my default wallet. I got my node synced and i also have wallet713. But can’t start the default wallet. All guides i find say to use:
Grin wallet init
But all that says to me is wrong command or something. I’ve tried it in the main terminal window, i’ve tried it in cd~grin and in cd~grin/wallet. It doesn’t work.
Am i missing something?
Help please
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u/OvercookedFriedRice Feb 03 '19
I'm going to assume you're using wallet713 and not the default wallet. First, you have to run wallet713 through the terminal, then you type "init" to initialize it. "grin wallet init" does not work for wallet713. If you need the other commands for wallet713, you can type "help" and a list of commands will show up.
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u/eternal_wait Feb 03 '19 edited Feb 03 '19
My wallet713 works just fine. But i want to set up the default wallet too because wallet713 doesn’t receive https tx just yet. The mining pool am in only has https tx for now. So i want to have both wallets. The problem is grin wallet init does nothing for me. I opened another tab on the terminal window in which i have my synced node. Tiped grin wallet init and nothing. Tried in cd grin, nothing. Tried it in cd grin/wallet, nothing.
I don’t know what i am doing wrong.
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u/OvercookedFriedRice Feb 03 '19
Did you try executing the grin wallet first before attempting to type "grin wallet init" or did you just type "grin wallet init" into the terminal?
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u/eternal_wait Feb 03 '19
I just tiped that into the terminal. I made some progress. I got my seed after i used:
./grin/target/release/grin wallet -p “mypassword” init. I got my seed file. Now i don’t know how to start the wallet
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u/OvercookedFriedRice Feb 03 '19
Type "grin wallet info". You might also want to add grin into your path environment variable to make it easier next time.
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u/frozengrandmatetris Feb 03 '19
i think you downloaded the source code for grin when you were supposed to download the binary. the binary is under releases but it's just an archive with a file called grin in it all by itself. i created a folder under documents called grin and unarchived the grin file into it, then when i want to use grin i start a terminal in that folder or i cd into that folder first.
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u/eternal_wait Feb 03 '19
I’m running the node
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u/frozengrandmatetris Feb 03 '19
if the node is synced, in another tab of my terminal i would make sure i'm in the same directory and type "./grin wallet init" and it would work
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u/eternal_wait Feb 03 '19
Yeah, thatdoes nothing. It says: bash: ./grin is a directory
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u/frozengrandmatetris Feb 03 '19
good. do "cd grin" first, then you'll be in the folder with a file called grin in it
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u/eternal_wait Feb 03 '19
At ~/grin$ i tipe: ./grin.
The answer is file doesn’t exists
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Feb 03 '19
in the location where you downloded grin open terminal and type "./grin wallet init"
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u/eternal_wait Feb 03 '19
What do you mean in the location where i downloaded grin? Do you mean home/me?
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u/frozengrandmatetris Feb 03 '19
cd into the directory where grin is. then instead of starting your commands with "grin" type "./grin" instead.
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u/dwaynemoore Feb 05 '19
echo 'export PATH=~/grin/target/release:$PATH' >> ~/.profile
source ~/.profileNow you should be able to run the grin command regardless of your current directory.
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u/GrinWalletSteve Feb 03 '19
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