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Electrum - Lightweight Bitcoin client
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Licence: MIT Licence
Author: Thomas Voegtlin
Language: Python (>= 3.6)
Homepage: https://electrum.org/
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:alt: Help translate Electrum online
Getting started
===============
Electrum is a pure python application. If you want to use the
Qt interface, install the Qt dependencies::
sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5
If you downloaded the official package (tar.gz), you can run
Electrum from its root directory without installing it on your
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system; all the python dependencies are included in the 'packages'
directory. To run Electrum from its root directory, just do::
./run_electrum
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You can also install Electrum on your system, by running this command::
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sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools
python3 -m pip install .[fast]
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This will download and install the Python dependencies used by
Electrum instead of using the 'packages' directory.
The 'fast' extra contains some optional dependencies that we think
are often useful but they are not strictly needed.
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If you cloned the git repository, 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
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Run install (this should install dependencies)::
python3 -m pip install .[fast]
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Compile the protobuf description file::
sudo apt-get install protobuf-compiler
protoc --proto_path=electrum --python_out=electrum electrum/paymentrequest.proto
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Create translations (optional)::
sudo apt-get install python-requests gettext
./contrib/pull_locale
Creating Binaries
=================
Linux (tarball)
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See :code:`contrib/build-linux/README.md`.
Linux (AppImage)
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See :code:`contrib/build-linux/appimage/README.md`.
Mac OS X / macOS
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See :code:`contrib/osx/README.md`.
Windows
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See :code:`contrib/build-wine/README.md`.
Android
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See :code:`electrum/gui/kivy/Readme.md`.