Electrum - lightweight Bitcoin client
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Licence: GNU GPL v3
Author: Thomas Voegtlin
Language: Python
Homepage: https://electrum.org/
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1. GETTING STARTED
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To run Electrum from this directory, just do::
./electrum
If you install Electrum on your system, you can run it from any
directory.
If you have pip, you can do::
python setup.py sdist
sudo pip install --pre dist/Electrum-2.0.tar.gz
If you don't have pip, install with::
python setup.py sdist
sudo python setup.py install
To start Electrum from your web browser, see
http://electrum.org/bitcoin_URIs.html
2. HOW OFFICIAL PACKAGES ARE CREATED
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On Linux/Windows::
pyrcc4 icons.qrc -o gui/qt/icons_rc.py
python setup.py sdist --format=zip,gztar
On Mac OS X::
# On port based installs
sudo python setup-release.py py2app
# On brew installs
ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" sudo python setup-release.py py2app --includes sip
sudo hdiutil create -fs HFS+ -volname "Electrum" -srcfolder dist/Electrum.app dist/electrum-VERSION-macosx.dmg
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