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Download Gerfaut from the GitHub release page or the download page. macOS warns you on the first launch and Windows when you run the installer, because Gerfaut is neither notarized by Apple nor code-signed for Windows.
Gerfaut is in public beta and has had little testing. Check every address and amount on your signing device before you rely on it. Report anything that looks wrong on GitHub, as Contact explains.

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Install Gerfaut

Check the file against the signed hash list before you open it. See Verify a download.
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Download the package for your distribution

Get one file from the release page. All three run on 64-bit Intel and AMD processors:
  • .deb: For Debian 12, Ubuntu 22.04 and newer.
  • .rpm: For Fedora.
  • .AppImage: For any other distribution with glibc 2.35 or newer, with nothing to install.
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Install or run it

3

Open Gerfaut

The .deb and the .rpm add Gerfaut to your application menu. The AppImage runs from the folder you saved it in.

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Take the welcome tour

On its first launch, Gerfaut opens a welcome tour of four pages. Select Next to read it and Get started on the last page, or Skip to close it.

The first page states that Gerfaut holds no private key and signs nothing. Skip closes the tour from any page.

The page then reads No wallets watched yet. Select Add a wallet and continue with Add a wallet.
Replay the tour from Settings > About > Show the welcome tour.

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Update Gerfaut

Gerfaut asks GitHub for the latest release at most once a day while it is unlocked, starting a day after you first open it. It tells you once about each new version, and never about a pre-release.
The check reaches GitHub from your IP address and carries no wallet data. With a .onion backend, it goes through Tor instead, and waits for Tor rather than start it.
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Select See the update

A strip such as Gerfaut 0.2.0 is available appears above the page. See the update opens Settings > About. Later closes the strip until the next version.
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Select the Get button

The button carries the new version, such as Get 0.2.0, and opens the release page.
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Run the new installer

Download the file for your system and install it over the current one. Your wallets stay in place. macOS and Windows warn you again, as on the first install.
To check by hand, select Check for updates in Settings > About. A version found this way shows there, and the strip no longer announces it. To stop the daily check, turn off the Check for updates automatically switch there.