# Tails

To use Cake Wallet on Tails, you must run Cake Wallet with extra arguments to store the wallet and preferences in your Persistent volume.

Tails is an amnesic operating system. Every time Tails is shutdown, it loses any extra programs or files you downloaded. In order to use Cake Wallet on Tails, you must set up `Persistent Storage`. This allows you to save the Cake Wallet installation and not need to set it up every time you restart your Tails install.

To create Persistent Storage, please see <https://tails.net/doc/persistent\\_storage/create/index.en.html>

It is recommended to put the entire Cake Wallet installation under the Persistent volume to avoid re-downloading every time Tails is started up.

## Installation

Open the Tor Browser, go to `https://github.com/cake-tech/cake_wallet/releases/`, and download the latest release. Example: `Cake_Wallet_v4.11.0_Linux.tar.xz`

The download will be stored at `/home/amnesia/Tor Browser`. Click the Download icon on the top-right, then click the `Open in Folder` icon to access the download folder.

[![Open In Folder](/files/bfc2aec611e1f44a15d40a5b2109293f83831c88)](broken://pages/bfc2aec611e1f44a15d40a5b2109293f83831c88)

Extract the Cake\_wallet.tar.xz into the Persistent volume at `/home/amnesia/Persistent`.

Example video for extracting the Cake Wallet files into a custom `cake_wallet` Persistent directory.

## Running

Open the `cake_wallet` folder (or whichever extracted folder has the cake\_wallet executable) in the Persistent volume.

Right-click on a blank area and click `Open in Terminal`.

[![Open in Terminal](/files/e9b9618ea96bd05f038bb6a29781c86b6c08f2ce)](broken://pages/e9b9618ea96bd05f038bb6a29781c86b6c08f2ce)

Run Cake Wallet using this command:

```
CAKE_WALLET_DIR=$HOME/Persistent/cake_wallet/ XDG_DATA_HOME=$CAKE_WALLET_DIR/preferences ./cake_wallet
```

This will place the wallets under `/home/amnesia/Persistent/cake_wallet/wallets` and the preferences file under `/home/amnesia/Persistent/cake_wallet/preferences/`

You can change the `CAKE_WALLET_DIR` and `XDG_DATA_HOME` to any other directory, as long as they are somewhere in your Persistent volume!

[![Run Cake Wallet](/files/a5417f208cedac877310797c0ad7128ac96d9853)](broken://pages/a5417f208cedac877310797c0ad7128ac96d9853)

## Future Use

Every time you start up Tails, you can access the Persistent volume and your Cake Wallet folder by using the File Browser or the Terminal, and follow the above instructions to run Cake Wallet.


---

# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.cakewallet.com/get-started/install/linux/tails.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.