[Ethereum] How to start mist from the command line in linux

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I'm on Linux Mint 18.2 (built on Ubuntu, using the Cinnamon desktop). I've installed mist successfully, and I can start it from the "Menu->Other->Ethereum Wallet" icon in the start menu, but I cannot yet figure out how to start it from the command line.

Best Answer

I should have dug a little deeper first. From the command prompt

> ethereumwallet

I just got confused, since the tool is called mist. I found this by right clicking on the "Menu" button, click "Configure", click the "Menu" tab, click "Open the menu editor", click on "Other" then "Ethereum Wallet" and then properties - which shows you the location of the program and the name of it.

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[Ethereum] How to install Mist from the pre-built binaries on 32-bit Linux

geth is not included in the 32 bit Linux Ethereum Wallet packages (I've checked the current version 0-7-2 and 0-6-1):

user@Kumquat:~/EthereumWallet$ unzip -t Ethereum-Wallet-linux32-0-7-2.zip | grep resources
    testing: Ethereum-Wallet-linux32-0-7-2/resources/   OK
    testing: Ethereum-Wallet-linux32-0-7-2/resources/app.asar   OK
    testing: Ethereum-Wallet-linux32-0-7-2/resources/atom.asar   OK

But it is included in the 64 bit Linux package:

user@Kumquat:~/EthereumWallet$ unzip -t Ethereum-Wallet-linux64-0-7-2.zip | grep resources
    testing: Ethereum-Wallet-linux64-0-7-2/resources/   OK
    testing: Ethereum-Wallet-linux64-0-7-2/resources/app.asar   OK
    testing: Ethereum-Wallet-linux64-0-7-2/resources/atom.asar   OK
    testing: Ethereum-Wallet-linux64-0-7-2/resources/node/   OK
    testing: Ethereum-Wallet-linux64-0-7-2/resources/node/geth/   OK
    testing: Ethereum-Wallet-linux64-0-7-2/resources/node/geth/geth   OK

It seems that geth is normally not included in the 32 bit Linux packages.

If you have a 32 bit Ubuntu Linux installation, you will have to try installing geth using (from Installation Instructions for Ubuntu - Installing from PPA):

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ethereum/ethereum
# Next line only if you want the dev version
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ethereum/ethereum-dev
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ethereum

The ethereum package above does seem to have the 32-bit version available (see Ethereum - publishing details - it's the i386 version).

[Ethereum] Is geth command line and mist Wallet UI console the same thing

No, those are 2 different things.

Browser console.

The Browser Console is like the Web Console, but applied to the whole browser rather than a single content tab.

geth Console

It is a terminal interface to interact with the go-ethereum utility.

If you write javascript functions using web3 to interact with a geth console, you can see the functions available in the Browser Console. Means you can invoke geth console from Browser Console.