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
===================

Check out the code from Github::

    git clone git://github.com/spesmilo/electrum