Tutorials: Installation Instructions for Linux

Instalation of the Linux Edition

Instalation of the Linux QT GUI edition

1. If you have installed a previous version, please stop the running wallet.
2. Backup your wallet.dat
3. Remove the old installation
4. Open a terminal as user

cd

mv .CloakCoin .CloakCoin_backup

5. Unzip the download.
6. Open a terminal with root rights

cd /opt

mkdir -vp cloakcoin/2.0.2.1_defender

cd !$

mv /path/to/unzipped/cloakcoin* .

chmod +x cloakcoin*

ln -s /opt/cloakcoin/2.0.2.1_defender/cloakcoin-qt /usr/local/bin/cloakcoin

7. On some debian/ubuntu distributions you need to installing missing libs as with root privileges:

apt-get update

apt-get install libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls

8. run cloakcoin with your user account
9. Follow the instructions from the installer.
10. Say yes to the 'auto blockchain downloader' this will be the faster way!
11. Let your wallet find other nodes and sync the blockchain

Instalation of the Linux Daemon edition

1. Create config directory in your Home folder

mkdir /home/USERNAME/.CloakCoin

2. Switch to the directory and download newest Blockchain for faster sync

cd /home/USERNAME/.CloakCoin

wget https://backend.cloakcoin.com/wallet/v2/cloak_ldb.zip

unzip cloak_ldb.zip

3. Create .CloakCoin.conf file with rpcusername and password

nano /home/USERNAME/.CloakCoin/CloakCoin.conf

rpcusername=YOURRPCUSERNAME

rpcpassword=YOURRANDOMRPCPASSWORD

4. Save this file and exit
5. Create a folder for your CloakCoin Daemon and download this new Wallet

mkdir /home/USERNAME/cloakcoin

cd /home/USERNAME/cloakcoin

wget https://www.cloakcoin.com/en/downloader.html?file=files/downloads/wallet/2.0.2.1/cloakCoin_qt-

daemon_linux_x64_v2.0.2.1.defender.zip

unzip cloakCoin_qt-daemon_linux_x64_v2.0.2.1.defender.zip

rm -r cloakCoin_qt-daemon_linux_x64_v2.0.2.1.defender.zip

6. Start Daemon