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HardCorePawn / multibit_recovery

Python scripts that help with recovering funds from "broken" MultiBit HD and MultiBit Classic wallets due to the "Password did not unlock the wallet" issue
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ImportError: No module named google.protobuf #11

Closed Tongie969 closed 3 years ago

Tongie969 commented 3 years ago

Hello HardCorePawn!

Thanks for offering your hard work here! I tried to use "decrypt_multibit_classic_walletkeys.py" but I am facing this import error.

+Traceback (most recent call last): File "decrypt_multibit_classic_walletkeys.py", line 47, in import wallet_pb2, binascii, bitcoin File "/home/tongie/multibit_recovery/wallet_pb2.py", line 6, in from google.protobuf import descriptor as _descriptor ImportError: No module named google.protobuf

I also could imagine some misconfiguration by me. OS is Ubuntu 20.04 and Python 2.7.18.

I will try it on Windows tomorrow and let you know.

HardCorePawn commented 3 years ago

Did you install the google protobuf module in Python? As per the Linux installation instructions: https://github.com/HardCorePawn/multibit_recovery#linux

specifically:

To install dependencies: pip install protobuf pylibscrypt bitcoin

Tongie969 commented 3 years ago

Thanks for your fast response!

I already had the dependencies installed.

$ pip install protobuf pylibscrypt bitcoin Requirement already satisfied: protobuf in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (3.6.1) Requirement already satisfied: pylibscrypt in ./.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages (2.0.0) Requirement already satisfied: bitcoin in ./.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages (1.1.42)

Maybe I try to start with the wrong input.

sudo python2 decrypt_multibit_classic_walletkeys.py multibit-XXX.wallet

and I have just placed that one small .wallet file in the folder. I hope that right.

Sorry for noobing around a little bit ;)

HardCorePawn commented 3 years ago

It's ok... the whole Python 2 v. Python 3 thing can be a bit problematic... if you look at your output above, you'll see that you have installed the dependencies in Python 3... but you're trying to run with Python 2...

Try: sudo python2 -m pip install protobuf pylibscrypt bitcoin

that should run the Python 2 version of pip and install the dependencies in the right place.

Tongie969 commented 3 years ago

Captain, your scrip is working great, I can't wait to ask for your address.

My mate was sure there is no password on it, but there is...

Let's hope john fixes it, and I will appreciate your help.

HardCorePawn commented 3 years ago

Glad you managed to get it sorted and up and running. Let me know if you need any more help.