This is a first draft of a rough guide to installing nym-wallet 0.1.0 from source on Linux. There might be some errors so proceed with caution.

installing NodeJS and yarn

Start with getting nvm which stands for node version manager.

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.0/install.sh | bash

after that you need to source your .bashrc for it to work in your current shell:

source $HOME/.bashrc

check if nvm is installed: nvm -v This should return a version number, else you need to go back to the previous step and source your .bashrc or on MacOS .zshrc or .bash_profile.

Install NodeJS and npm with nvm

To install the latest working version of node use the following command:

nvm install 16.8.0

Again, check if all went well: node -v and also npm -v

Install yarn

npm install -g yarn

If you get permission error, run it with sudo.

Install Rust and all that

For the sake of simplicity, let's install Rust with their official curl to sh pipe.

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Press 1 for default installation and wait for it to finish.

Note if Rust is already installed and installer warns you

If the script warns you that Rust is already installed, remove the old version with following: You can do this without manually deleting the old rust binaries by uninstalling cargo and then auto-removing its now un-needed dependencies:

sudo apt remove cargo
sudo apt autoremove

Then you need to add it to your path like this:

echo "source $HOME/.cargo/env" | tee -a ~/.bashrc

one more step and we're done with installing Rust and all the other tools. We need to source the .bashrc: source ~/.bashrc

And then verify if the installation went well:

cargo --version

Which should return a version number.

Build Nym-wallet from source

Clone the Nym repo from Github:

git clone https://github.com/nymtech/nym

go to the downloaded directory and the nym-wallet directory inside it:

cd nym/nym-wallet

Now install all dependencies: yarn install

After it finishes you can now compile the nym-wallet binaries: yarn build This will take a while, depending on your hardware, so sit back and relax!

If you do not want to build the .appImage and .deb files you can kill the process after the first binary gets built with CTRL+C

The nym-wallet binary is built in nym/nym-wallet/target/release directory. Let's assume you're still in nym/nym-wallet/ directory then cd target/release and to launch the binary: ./nym-wallet. This should open a new window with the GUI Nym-wallet. Congrats !!!