<ul>
<li><p>Install Xcode</p>
</li>
<li><p>Install MacPorts from <a href="https://www.macports.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.macports.org/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Run these commands:</p>
<pre><code>sudo port install python27 py27-twisted py27-pip py-bsddb python_select
sudo port select --set python python27
sudo easy_install ecdsa
</code></pre>

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<p>Could anyone please give me some guidance on how to perform a wallet dump using PyWallet on a MacBook (macOS 10.12 Sierra)? I’m not very savvy with this stuff at all. Have an old wallet.dat file from 2011 that I want to check all the keys from and was reading that doing a wallet dump would be an efficient way to do it without having to wait for the entire blockchain to sync on Bitcoin Core. Having a really hard time trying to figure out how to do it with almost no computer programming knowledge. So far I have Python 2.7 downloaded but am pretty stuck after that. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!</p>

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Help needed with PyWallet and wallet dump using MacOS
Brian
# Help needed with PyWallet and wallet dump using MacOS

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-06-08)

Could anyone please give me some guidance on how to perform a wallet dump using PyWallet on a MacBook (macOS 10.12 Sierra)? I’m not very savvy with this stuff at all. Have an old wallet.dat file from 2011 that I want to check all the keys from and was reading that doing a wallet dump would be an efficient way to do it without having to wait for the entire blockchain to sync on Bitcoin Core. Having a really hard time trying to figure out how to do it with almost no computer programming knowledge. So far I have Python 2.7 downloaded but am pretty stuck after that. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2020-06-20. Score: 1

* Install Xcode
* Install MacPorts from <https://www.macports.org/>

Run these commands:

```
sudo port install python27 py27-twisted py27-pip py-bsddb python_select
sudo port select --set python python27
sudo easy_install ecdsa

```


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