Electron Cash - Lightweight Bitcoin Cash client =====================================
Licence: MIT Licence
Author: Electron Cash Developers
Language: Python
Homepage: https://electroncash.org/
Note: If running from source, Python 3.6 or above is required to run Electron Cash. If your system lacks Python 3.6, you have other options, such as the binary releases.
Electron Cash is a pure python application forked from Electrum. If you want to use the Qt interface, install the Qt dependencies:
sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5 python3-pyqt5.qtsvg
If you downloaded the official package (tar.gz), you can run Electron Cash from its root directory (called Electrum), without installing it on your system; all the python dependencies are included in the 'packages' directory. To run Electron Cash from its root directory, just do:
./electron-cash
You can also install Electron Cash 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 Electron Cash, instead of using the 'packages' directory.
If you cloned the git repository, you need to compile extra files before you can run Electron Cash. Read the next section, "Development Version".
Electron Cash natively support Ledger Nano S hardware wallet. If you plan to use you need an additional dependency, namely btchip. To install it run this command:
sudo pip3 install btchip-python
If you still have problems connecting to your Nano S please have a look at this troubleshooting section on Ledger website.
Check your python version >= 3.6, and install pyqt5, as instructed above in the Getting started section.
Check out the code from Github:
git clone https://github.com/Electron-Cash/Electron-Cash
cd Electron-Cash
Install the python dependencies:
pip3 install -r contrib/requirements/requirements.txt --user
Then
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
Compile libsecp256k1 (optional, yet highly recommended):
sudo apt-get install libtool automake
./contrib/make_secp
For plugin development, see the plugin documentation.
Running unit tests:
pip install tox
tox
Tox will take care of building a faux installation environment, and ensure that the mapped import paths work correctly.
Linux AppImage & Source Tarball --------------
See contrib/build-linux/README.md.
Mac OS X / macOS --------
See contrib/osx/.
See contrib/build-wine/.
See android/.
See ios/.