Monero

Downloading and installing the Monero GUI Wallet on openSUSE Leap 15.1

This how-to assumes you are familiar with basic Linux commands and file structures as well as basic downloading and usage of web browsers and Linux utilities available inside the openSUSE distribution.

The monero web page for the official monero project is located at https://www.getmonero.org/

The webpage has a downloads section.

Select the downloads tab and click on it.

Scroll down to Linux, 64-bit

Copy the SHA256 Hash (GUI) character string to a text file and save that file with a name of your choosing in a folder of your choosing.

Click on the 'Linux, 64-bit' hyperlink and choose a location to download the compressed file to.

If you do not already have it, install the sha256deep utility. It is part of the hashdeep utility that is available from Yast.

Open a terminal and cd to the location you saved the compressed monero 64-bit installation file.

Run sha256deep ./<your compressed monero file> and copy the hash code it generates to a text file. Compare the hash file you generated with the one you copied from the monero downloads page for the monero gui you downloaded. If they match it is ok to begin file extraction. If they do not match you need to contact the monero admins and notify them of a possible security breach on their downloads page.

Extract the compressed monero 64-bit file using the archive extractor of your choice.

The extracted monero 64-bit file creates a folder with a name similar to the file name.

Inside that folder will be a file called monero-wallet-gui.

That file is the executable that you want to run. I would suggest making a launch icon that points to this executable. I would recommend using the full path as indicated by doing a properties on the monero-wallet-gui file. If your application launch creator wants a working directory choose the directory the monero-wallet-gui file is in. Also remember to give the launcher a meaningful name as well as comment.

If you want to have a monero icon for your launcher you will need to search for a suitable one and download it and convert it to a file format that your launcher accepts for launcher icons. The gwenview program in the KDE package has the capability of saving image files in various formats. You can also use the GIMP image program but be aware that you have to use the EXPORT function to save a file to a non gimp format.

The first time you start the monero wallet it will need to download the complete blockchain. Be aware that this is a very time consuming process and try to be patient. It is possible to speed up this process by downloading the blockchain from the downloads page on the monero website and then run an import utility included with the monero wallet files you downloaded. The utility is called "monero-blockchain-import". I have not personally used this feature but would suggest looking for tutorials for advice on it.