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About the distribution

The Ledger Starter uses the SliTaz Linux distro. Find out more here: http://www.slitaz.org/

Start

  • Download a SliTaz ISO on slitaz.org
  • Make a bootable flash drive (using various tools like Rufus, UNetbootin, ...) or boot in a virtual machine
  • When prompted, select "Base Live"

Recipe

tazpkg

Run the following commands to install the required packets (as of today, tazpkg doesn't allow multiple packages to be installed at once)

tazpkg get-install python python-cython
tazpkg get-install git
tazpkg get-install wget
tazpkg get-install gcc
tazpkg get-install slitaz-toolchain
tazpkg get-install python-dev
tazpkg get-install setuptools
tazpkg get-install libtool
tazpkg get-install udev-dev
tazpkg get-install pkg-config

Configuring libudev

pkg-config --libs --cflags libudev

Installing PYUSB

export GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=true
git clone https://github.com/walac/pyusb
cd pyusb
python setup.py install

Install PIP

wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py --no-check-certificate
python get-pip.py

Ledger Wallet udev rules

Add the Ledger Wallet udev rules (from our FAQ: http://support.ledgerwallet.com/knowledge_base/topics/ledger-wallet-is-not-recognized-on-linux)

echo "SUBSYSTEMS==\"usb\", ATTRS{idVendor}==\"2581\", ATTRS{idProduct}==\"1b7c\", MODE=\"0660\", GROUP=\"plugdev\"" >/etc/udev/rules.d/20-hw1.rules
echo "SUBSYSTEMS==\"usb\", ATTRS{idVendor}==\"2581\", ATTRS{idProduct}==\"2b7c\", MODE=\"0660\", GROUP=\"plugdev\"" >>/etc/udev/rules.d/20-hw1.rules
echo "SUBSYSTEMS==\"usb\", ATTRS{idVendor}==\"2581\", ATTRS{idProduct}==\"3b7c\", MODE=\"0660\", GROUP=\"plugdev\"" >>/etc/udev/rules.d/20-hw1.rules
echo "SUBSYSTEMS==\"usb\", ATTRS{idVendor}==\"2581\", ATTRS{idProduct}==\"4b7c\", MODE=\"0660\", GROUP=\"plugdev\"" >>/etc/udev/rules.d/20-hw1.rules
echo "SUBSYSTEMS==\"usb\", ATTRS{idVendor}==\"2581\", ATTRS{idProduct}==\"1807\", MODE=\"0660\", GROUP=\"plugdev\"" >>/etc/udev/rules.d/20-hw1.rules
echo "SUBSYSTEMS==\"usb\", ATTRS{idVendor}==\"2581\", ATTRS{idProduct}==\"1808\", MODE=\"0660\", GROUP=\"plugdev\"" >>/etc/udev/rules.d/20-hw1.rules
udevadm trigger
udevadm control --reload-rules

BIP39 support

git clone https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic
cd python-mnemonic
python setup.py install

Cython

wget http://cython.org/release/Cython-0.22.zip
unzip Cython-0.22.zip
cd Cython-0.22
python setup.py build
python setup.py install

libusb-1.0 1.0.9

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libusb/libusb-1.0/libusb-1.0.9/libusb-1.0.9.tar.bz2
tar -xvf libusb-1.0.0.tar.bz2
cd libusb-1.0.0 
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install
ln -s /usr/include/libusb-1.0/libusb.h /usr/include/

Note: you may need to download libusb-1.0.9.tar.bz2 manually

hidapi

git clone git://github.com/signal11/hidapi.git
cd hidapi
autoreconf -i
automake
LIBS="-lusb-1.0 -ludev" ./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install

cython-hidapi

git clone https://github.com/trezor/cython-hidapi
cd cython-hidapi
git submodule init
git submodule update
python setup.py build
python setup.py install

btchip-python

git clone https://github.com/LedgerHQ/btchip-python
cd btchip-python
python setup.py install

Misc dependencies (used in the Python script)

pip install pretty-table
pip install ecdsa
pip install blessings

Writing changes

SliTaz comes with a handy tool allowing you to save your changes to a rootfs.gz file (for instance). Just run:

tazusb writefs gzip

And follow the instructions. You will then need to move the /rootfs.gz file to your flash drive (and replace the old one).