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Shockwallet is great and easy to use with the bootstrap LND service offered by Lighting.pub. It's custodial service.
The most powerful and sovereign way to use ShockWallet is to install Lightning.pub in a Linux machine. This is the process Darthcoin is commenting on.
There's no issue on using Shockwallet app on mobile phones, is also available on the app stores and as apk. This is the easier and faster way to get a wallet setup. It's easily competing with rizful/w, coinos, alby and others ready-to-use kwc-free custodial wallets.
I find much more interesting the sovereign option, something that all other wallets mentioned before do not offer, for obvious reasons. A direct competitor could be Zeus that also offers both options to its users.
My suggestion is, if you have any machine running Linux, try to install Lightning.pub, it's one line cli command to have a lightning node up and running in less than two minutes:
wget -qO- https://deploy.lightning.pub | bash@justin_shocknet the idea of providing a QR code at the end of the installation is a must. It would make life much easier. And also agree on creating some documentation with few basic cli commands to stop, restart and sync.
wget -qO- https://deploy.lightning.pub | bash
I keep getting
Failed to install Node.js.
java script isn't needed anyway, correct?
What OS and hardware architecture? I'll try to reproduce
I just confirmed it's 4GB Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS Dell XPS 13/9360
Interesting, I may ask you to fetch a log to help figure out where it's failing, will confirm the logging first though on my end
Sure.
Can you try running this? it's a version with an added log
note there's the letter t before deploy (it's in a test branch)
wget -qO- https://tdeploy.lightning.pub | bash
after that runs, if it fails again, run this... it should output a log detailing what happened
cat /tmp/lightning_pub_install.log
wget -qO- https://tdeploy.lightning.pub | bashPlease don't encourage anyone to develop the habit of piping directly from curl/wget into bash!
Downloading a temporary copy gives the opportunity to look over and possibly customize for your system before running it, and also makes it easier to resume from partway if it failed and needed intervention.
after `wget -qO- https://tdeploy.lightning.pub | bash'
Script version 0.2.2
2025-11-03 23:02:19 Detected OS: Linux
2025-11-03 23:02:19 Detected ARCH: amd64
2025-11-03 23:02:19 Installing LND...
2025-11-03 23:02:20 LND is already up-to-date. No action needed.
2025-11-03 23:02:21 Checking for Node.js...
2025-11-03 23:02:25 Node.js is not installed. Installing the LTS version...
2025-11-03 23:02:25 Failed to install Node.js.
2025-11-03 23:02:25 ERROR: Failed to install Node.js
2025-11-03 23:02:25 Exiting with status 1
2025-11-03 23:02:25 Cleaning up temporary files...
After I ran
cat /tmp/lightning_pub_install.log
I got this:
$ cat /tmp/lightning_pub_install.log
cat: /tmp/lightning_pub_install.log: No such file or directory
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It's an old laptop running the latest Ubuntu? If you need more detailed info I'll check out the specs when I get home. I'm pretty sure it's 4GB ram.
I also install it on old PC from 2008, with a slow CPU and 4GB RAM.
The only was that was slow in syncing and using it. Took 90% of resources, just LN Pub running.
Was just testing to see how low I can go with PC specs.
Failed to install Node.js.
java script isn't needed anyway, correct?
First of all, "javascript" is one word; it's usually possible to distinguish from context between the two unrelated programming languages "java" and "javascript", although the ambiguity should be avoided if possible.
Secondly, Node is used for writing server-side programs in Javascript. Although JS originated as a language for scripts that ran within the client web browser, it is also common as a server-side language. "Node" is the name of the most popular engine for writing server programs in javascript, and you might also see mention of "NPM" or its invocation in scripts; this is "Node Package Manager".
Thanks for this clear explanation. I'm pretty ignorant when it cones to this stuff, but it's amazing what you can learn by just hanging around SN!
node.js is needed for the lightning.pub dashboard and some other things.
Try again to run the installation script.
Thanks
exactly ! the easiness of installing it with just copy/paste that command is fantastic.
The old Spark Wallet (CLN GUI intrerface) have that QR
https://github.com/shesek/spark-wallet
people do not confuse this Spark with Lightspark / Spark from David Marcus
but didn't finish setting it up.
take notes for the whole process of testing and come back with your own critiques. I would want to hear them too. btw, try to see it from the perspective of a total noob, try to plasy dumb even that you know what are you doing.
This is a good set of suggestions. I was playing around with shock wallet last weekend, but didn't finish setting it up.
It really would have been handy to have a qr to transfer the npub between devices.