Installing Joinmarket on Mac can be very tedious, specially for someone who is not tech savvy. A friend of mine asked me for help to get Joinmarket installed on his Mac as he had a very hard time doing it, So I helped him out. I thought this could help others who are looking to do the same, So thought of doing a SteemIt post. So here are the following steps I took to get Joinmarket installed, total installation time could be around 30-40 mins depending on your internet speed.
- Install docker by following instruction on following link
https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/install/
Or directly download and install https://download.docker.com/mac/stable/Docker.dmg - Install ubuntu after installing docker using following command
docker run -i -t ubuntu /bin/bash - The above command should install ubuntu and boot it and log you into that OS.
- Now install joinmarket prerequisites using following command
apt-get update -y && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get install python-dev libsodium-dev python-pip -y
Select Y for Yes - Install wget
apt-get install wget
Select Y for Yes - Install Joinmarket
wget https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket/archive/v0.2.3.tar.gz -O joinmarket-0.2.3.tar.gz - Extract with
tar xzf joinmarket-0.2.3.tar.gzand thencd joinmarket-0.2.3 - Activate virtualenv
pip install -r requirements.txt
Joinmarket should be installed
Create internal wallet using
python wallet-tool.py generate
It will generate seed words and will ask you for passphrase.. Which eventually will be saved to wallet.json
Sending funds can be done by following following doc
https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket/wiki/Sending-payments-with-CoinJoin
Start Joinmarket ubuntu container
docker start ubuntu
In-case of further docker exploration or support
https://docs.docker.com/