Litecoin Series: Part 1 - How to Install Litecoin Wallet in Ubuntu

Downloading the Litecoin Core

Visit https://litecoin.org

Download the appropriate core for your system. For this example I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 so the website gave me the Linux download)

Installing Litecoin Dependencies

Before we install the wallet GUI, we have to install QT4 runtime library.

Downloading and Installing Litecoin Wallet

Now we can start installing the Litecoin Wallet GUI by going to Litecoin's Github download page
https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/downloads
Save and extract to your Home directory.

Go to your Litecoin Wallet bin folder. Choose either 32 or 64 depending on your system. Double click litecoin-qt.

If you see the Alert notification asking you to upgrade...then we need the Litecoin core we downloaded from Litecoin.org

Upgrading Litecoin Core

Go to the Downloads folder or where ever you saved the Litecoin core. Extract it to your litecoin folder in your Home directory.

Copy the contents of Litecoin Core's bin folder to the Litecoin Wallet's bin/32 or bin/64 folder. Choose Replace to override the current litecoin-qt and litecoind files.

Now we can copy the Litecoin Core's share folder to Litecoin Wallet folder and delete the Litecoin Core folder.

This is how your Litecoin Wallet folder should look like

Next post will tackle synchronizing your Litecoin wallet.