Binary Tarball Download & Setup

The Electric Coin Company provides a binary tarball for download.

As of v5.0.0, We are no longer supporting Debian 9(Stretch) packages in apt.

Download Tarball for Debian Buster v5.9.0

After downloading but before extracting, verify that the checksum of the tarball matches the hash below for the version of the binary you downloaded:

Debian Buster:

sha256sum zcash-5.9.0-linux64-debian-buster.tar.gz

Result: 7a63b8f8a2aefc7b634cc3e572103600f4af8c383bd90ca1d333870ddaa004ef

Download Tarball for Debian Bullseye v5.9.0

After downloading but before extracting, verify that the checksum of the tarball matches the hash below for the version of the binary you downloaded:

Debian Bullseye:

sha256sum zcash-5.9.0-linux64-debian-bullseye.tar.gz

Result: d385b9fbeeb145f60b0b339d256cabb342713ed3014cd634cf2d68078365abd2

Download Tarball for Debian Bookworm v5.9.0

After downloading but before extracting, verify that the checksum of the tarball matches the hash below for the version of the binary you downloaded:

Debian Bookworm:

sha256sum zcash-5.9.0-linux64-debian-bookworm.tar.gz

Result: ccbb2204a8af57b601f36df6c0528bf598b9aff47ad5956f2ab8eec2e49fe018

This checksum was generated from our gitian deterministic build process. View all gitian signatures.

Once you’ve verified that it matches, extract the Buster, Bullseye or Bookworm files and move the binaries into your executables $PATH:

tar -xvf zcash-5.9.0-linux64-debian-buster.tar.gz

mv -t /usr/local/bin/ zcash-5.9.0/bin/*

Now that Zcash is installed, run this command to download the parameters used to create and verify shielded transactions:

zcash-fetch-params

Finally, set up a configuration file (~/.zcash/zcash.conf) before runnning zcashd. It can be completely empty; it will then run with the default parameters.