Hardware wallets on Linux¶
The following aims to be a concise guide of what you need to get your hardware wallet working with Electrum.
If you use the AppImage, that already has all the dependencies and Python libraries bundled with it, so skip the first two steps.
1. Dependencies¶
Currently all hardware wallets depend on hidapi
, to be able to build
that, you need:
ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev libudev-dev
fedora:
sudo dnf install libusb-devel systemd-devel
(Package names may be different for other distributions.)
2. Python libraries¶
Then depending on the device you have, you need a python package (typically a library by the manufacturer):
3. udev rules¶
You will need to configure udev rules:
Ledger¶
See Ledger Support Center: What to do if my Ledger Nano S is not recognized on Windows and/ or Linux?
Digital Bitbox¶
See Bitbox | Linux
Archos Safe-T¶
Coldcard¶
See this file in their GitHub repository.
(It should go into /etc/udev/rules.d/51-coinkite.rules
or /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/51-coinkite.rules
)
4. Apply configuration¶
To apply the changes, reload udev rules (or reboot):
sudo udevadm control --reload-rules && sudo udevadm trigger
5. Done¶
That’s it! Electrum should now detect your device.