Electrum - Lightweight Bitcoin client
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Licence: MIT Licence
Author: Thomas Voegtlin
Language: Python
Homepage: https://electrum.org/
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Getting started
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Electrum is a pure python application. However, if you want to use the
Qt interface, then you need to install the Qt dependencies::
sudo apt-get install python-pip python-qt4
If you downloaded the official package (tar.gz), then you can run
Electrum from its root directory, without installing it on your
system. To run Electrum from this directory, just do::
./electrum
If you cloned the git repository, then you need to compile extra files
before you can run Electrum. Read the next section, "Development
Version".
Development version
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Check out the code from Github::
git clone git://github.com/spesmilo/electrum.git
cd electrum
Compile the icons file for Qt::
sudo apt-get install pyqt4-dev-tools
pyrcc4 icons.qrc -o gui/icons_rc.py
Compile the protobuf description file::
sudo apt-get install protobuf-compiler
protoc --proto_path=lib/ --python_out=lib/ lib/paymentrequest.proto
Create translations::
sudo apt-get install python-pycurl gettext
./contrib/make_locale
Install on Linux systems
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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
Creating Binaries
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In oder to creating binaries, you must create the 'packages' directory::
./contrib/pake_packages
Mac OS X
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# 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
Windows
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see contrib/build-wine/README
Android
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see gui/kivy/Readme.txt
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