how to enable wallet in a confirmed node

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I installed/compiled my Bitcoin Core RPC client version v0.16.2.0 and i used --disable-wallet flag.

I think this is the reason I am seeing "Method not found" errors when trying to GetNewAddress

how can i install/enable it after having fully confirmed node with up to date blockchain?

os: Ubuntu 16.04.5

solution

accepted the answer below but in my case since i set it up sing apt-install bitcoind the wallet feature was already there, i just needed to flip the disablewallet=1 flag in my bitcoin.config

Sonic Soul

Posted 2018-08-23T12:41:27.033

Reputation: 141

Answers

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Yes, that is a wallet feature. You would have to recompile without the --disable-wallet flag, starting back at executing the autotools configure script: ./configure. See https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/build-unix.md#disable-wallet-mode.

You also have to make sure you don't set the -disablewallet flag when you run bitcoind or have it in your bitcoin.conf file.

If you need to recompile, you could still back up the data in the .bitcoin folder, which includes the blockchain and UTXO set and copy it back over when the installation is complete. That way you don't have to download the blockchain again.

JBaczuk

Posted 2018-08-23T12:41:27.033

Reputation: 6 172

hmm disablewallet is a setting in my bitcoin.config. after setting it to 0, how do i 'recompile' it ? there was no strict compilation process when i set it up – Sonic Soul – 2018-08-23T16:35:28.963

-disablewallet is a runtime flag, which is different than the --disable-wallet compile flag. So did you compile it or not? Did you run ./configure --disable-wallet when you first set it up? Instructions to compile are here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/build-unix.md – JBaczuk – 2018-08-23T16:41:06.540

also not sure what ./configure refers to.. i don't have that dir.. – Sonic Soul – 2018-08-23T16:42:02.147

in installed with apt-get install bitcoind – Sonic Soul – 2018-08-23T16:43:20.170

That is autotools configure script, it scans your machine for dependencies and configures the build process. – JBaczuk – 2018-08-23T16:43:21.530

Oh ok, so you didn't compile. Just remove thedisablewallet line in bitcoin.conf and restart bitcoin $ bitcoin-cli stop then $bitcoind -daemon and see if it has the wallet functionality. – JBaczuk – 2018-08-23T16:46:20.040

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– JBaczuk – 2018-08-23T16:48:33.963

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