Licence: MIT Licence
Original Author: Thomas Voegtlin & Pooler
Port Maintainer: Romano
Language: Python
Homepage: https://viacoin.org/

Vialectrum 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 Vialectrum from its root directory, without installing it on your system; all the python dependencies are included in the 'packages' directory. To run Vialectrum from its root directory, just do:

./vialectrum

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

sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools
python3 setup.py install

This will download and install the Python dependencies used by Vialectrum, instead of using the 'packages' directory.

If you cloned the git repository, you need to compile extra files before you can run Vialectrum. Read the next section, "Development Version".

Check out the code from Github:

git clone git://github.com/vialectrum/vialectrum.git
cd vialectrum

Run install (this should install dependencies):

python3 setup.py install

Compile the icons file for Qt:

sudo apt-get install pyqt5-dev-tools
pyrcc5 icons.qrc -o gui/qt/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 (optional):

sudo apt-get install python-requests gettext
./contrib/make_locale

To create binaries, create the 'packages' directory:

./contrib/make_packages

This directory contains the python dependencies used by Electrum.

Mac OS X / macOS --------

See contrib/build-osx/.

See contrib/build-wine/.

See gui/kivy/Readme.txt file.