<p>You can just recompile with the wallet enabled, and restart.</p>
<p>It won't need to redownload things, as the bulk of the work in setting up a node is synchronizing with the network. The resulting database is the same whether there are wallets or not.</p>

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So just install sqlite and then run `make` && `make run` again? Or also `configure` ?
zerotobtc
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Also configure.
Pieter Wuille
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Pieter Wuille
<p>I installed and configured a testnet node but I forgot to install sqlite so all wallet-related commands do not work... Is there a way to fix that without having to setup a whole new node? Thanks!</p>

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Reconfigure Bitcoin Core to allow Wallet
zerotobtc
# Reconfigure Bitcoin Core to allow Wallet

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-07-08)

I installed and configured a testnet node but I forgot to install sqlite so all wallet-related commands do not work... Is there a way to fix that without having to setup a whole new node? Thanks!

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2022-07-08. Score: 1

You can just recompile with the wallet enabled, and restart.

It won't need to redownload things, as the bulk of the work in setting up a node is synchronizing with the network. The resulting database is the same whether there are wallets or not.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: So just install sqlite and then run `make` && `make run` again? Or also `configure` ?  
> **username_1**: Also configure.  

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