Installing Electrum-LTC LiteCoin wallet in Tails Live operating system

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Installing Electrum-LTC LiteCoin wallet in Tails LiveCD operating system

Tested with Tails 3.8 LiveCD (no persistent storage needed, you have to install it after every reboot) and Electrum-LTC 3.1.3.1.

Changelog (of this document)

2018-06-27

• updated to Tails 3.8

2018-04-20

• updated to Electrum-LTC 3.1.3.1

2018-03-31

• updated to Tails 3.6.2
• some installation details added

2018-03-25

• initial version of this document Tails 3.6.1, Electrum-LTC 3.0.6.2

Steps:

1. Ensure to set admin password when Tails initially boots. When Tails Greeter appears, click on the + Expand button -> Administration Password and boot Tails OS

2. Wait until TOR is connected

3. Run Terminal

4. In terminal execute commands:

. torsocks on

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools python3-pyqt5 python3-pip python3-dev libssl-dev build-essential

pip3 install scrypt

pip3 install https://electrum-ltc.org/download/Electrum-LTC-3.1.3.1.tar.gz

# Now is the time to disconnect from Internet if you wish

cd ~/.local/bin
./electrum-ltc

5. Enjoy

Im a bit confused as to how this works since you aren't copying it into the persistant folder

You have to install it every time you restart Tails. That is what I need, and how I personally use Tails.