How do you create a new wallet in bitcoin-qt (Ubuntu)? [0.5 BTC bounty]

[DATA COMMANDER]

Seems like a silly question, but I searched this forum, searched bitcoin stack exchange, searched google, and didn't find an answer.

I just upgraded to 0.6 and after the block chain downloaded I tried to create a new key to receive BTC. It asked me for my passphrase, and I entered what I thought was the correct phrase (several times), but it didn't like it. Not to worry: the wallet is empty--I just needed to decrypt it to create a new key. So I can just throw the wallet away and make a new one (and make sure that I enter the passphrase correctly and that it works). But how?

Bounty might take a couple hours, but it'll be paid.

[gweedo]

Remove the wallet.dat file in your home/.bitcoin folder
then start bitcoin-qt

[John (John K.)]

Data directory for Ubuntu/linux.

Code:

Linux
By default Bitcoin will put its data here:
~/.bitcoin/

Delete wallet.dat contained inside, and restart Bitcoin.

[DATA COMMANDER]

will pay gweedo tomorrow (waiting on Seals withdrawal)

[DATA COMMANDER]

Just sent 0.49995 BTC to the address in your sig, gweedo. I withdrew exactly 0.5 BTC from Seals to make sure the new wallet was set up properly, and I didn't know about the 0.00005 tx fee (last time I sent coins was a few months ago), so I had to take it out of the bounty. Hope that's okay.

[DATA COMMANDER]

No problem.

Kinda surprised that there isn't a way to delete wallet.dat through the GUI. Is that just so that people don't own themselves?

[GernMiester]

Just rename wallet.dat. Deleting it will save a few K of space renaming means you can always go back to check it.