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I'm using the version of Bitcoin-Qt 0.18.1 that comes with Flatpak. I've looked in the Bitcoin datadir, which is in ~/.var/app/org.bitcoincore.bitcoin-qt/data/ and there isn't any .cookie file there. This is preventing me from running Electrum Personal Server.
My Linux distro is MX Linux.
My bitcoin.conf is empty.
I ran bitcoind from Flatpak and it outputted the .cookie file
The GUI does not start the RPC server by default. To make sure the RPC server is running, pass the -server=1 flag on the command line or set server=1 in the Bitcoin Core config file.
