1. Download and Installation

Go to https://www.abelian.info/downloads and download a copy of the Abelian Desktop Wallet installation package.

Figure 1: Download the Abelian Desktop Wallet according to the operating system and the CPU architecture of your machine.

As of this writing, the Abelian Desktop Wallet supports Linux and macOS. A Windows version will be available soon.

If your machine is a Mac, please find out whether the CPU / Processor of the Mac machine is an Intel chip or an Apple silicon (for example, M1 chip). Please download the Abelian Desktop Wallet installation package from the

macOS

link if your CPU is an Intel chip. Otherwise, download from the

macOS (Apple silicon)

link if your CPU is an Apple silicon. To find out what CPU / Processor that your machine has, go to the upper left corner of your desktop, click the Apple logo and choose “About This Mac” to find out.

For the rest of this tutorial, we use the macOS version for elaboration.

Figure 2: Download the installation file to your machine's Desktop.

Suppose we save the Abelian Desktop Wallet installation package to the Desktop.

Figure 3: Abelian Desktop Wallet installation package on your machine’s Desktop.

Double-click this file to un-compress it. The Abelian Desktop Wallet application will be retrieved.

Figure 4: Abelian Desktop Wallet application.

Open the macOS Finder and move the Abelian Wallet Desktop application to the Applications folder.

Figure 5: Move the Abelian Wallet Desktop application into the Applications folder.

You will see that the Abelian Wallet Desktop application now is sitting inside the Applications folder.

Figure 6: Abelian Desktop Wallet in the Applications folder.

Right-click on the Abelian Wallet Desktop application and choose Open.

Figure 7: Right-click on the Abelian Desktop Wallet and Choose Open.

For the first time opening the Abelian Desktop Wallet, a warning message will be shown. This happens only at the first time opening the Abelian Desktop Wallet application.

Figure 8: A warning message appears when it is the first time running the Abelian Desktop Wallet.

Click Open to open the Abelian Desktop Wallet.

Figure 9: The setup page of the Abelian Desktop Wallet.

Choose a strong password to protect your Abelian Desktop Wallet and type the same password in both Password and Confirm fields. This strong password, called the Master Password, will be asked every time when you open the Abelian Desktop Wallet in the future.

If you are installing the Abelian Desktop Wallet on a Mac which has an Apple silicon CPU / Processor, for example, an M1 chip, you may encounter a message which says “Abelian Wallet” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Bin. If this happens, open

Terminal

, type the following command in the Terminal, and try opening the Abelian Desktop Wallet again.

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Abelian\ Wallet.app