README.md

Avalanche Wallet CLI

Installing on Mac and Linux

Brew Package Manager (Mac)

MacOS users running the Homebrew Package Manager can run:

brew tap obsidiansystems/avalanche-wallet-cli

brew install --HEAD obsidiansystems/avalanche-wallet-cli/avalanche-wallet-cli

In a few cases users have reported issues with installing the brew package when node/NPM/NVM was installed on the host machine by a method other than brew. For this issue, we recommend that you use brew uninstall avalanche-wallet-cli, completely remove node/NPM/NVM, and retry the install again. You can test whether node still exist by using node -v which should return an error. You do not need to reinstall node as it will be added as a dependency during the CLI install process.

Snap Package Manager (Ubuntu and other Linux versions)

Snap comes out-of-the-box for Ubuntu 16.04 and later. If your host machine does not have snap installed you can find instructions for many Linux distributions from the official Snapcraft documentaion.

To install the CLI, download the lastest snap package from the assets dropdown of the available releases and use:

snap install --devmode avalanche-wallet-cli.snap

Nix Package Manager (Other)

If you have the Nix package manager installed, you can install the CLI by checking out the git repository, and running the following command from the repository's top level directory:

$(nix-build -A cli-app-avalanche)/bin/avalanche-ledger-cli 

or, for development purposes:

$ nix-shell
[nix-shell:~]$ yarn install --frozen-lockfile
[nix-shell:~]$ node cli/cli.js 

Running the CLI

Once installed, the CLI will be available using:

avalanche-cli