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-qt4

If you downloaded the official package (tar.gz), then you can run
Electrum from its root directory, without installing it on your
system; all the python dependencies are included in the 'packages'
directory. To run Electrum from its root directory, just do::

    ./electrum

You can also install Electrum on your system, by running this command::

    python setup.py install

This will download and install the Python dependencies used by
Electrum, instead of using the 'packages' dir