Licence: MIT Licence
Original Author: Thomas Voegtlin and Pooler
Port Maintainer: Romano
Language: Python 2
Homepage: https://vialectrum.org/
Before you upgrade, always make sure you have saved your wallet seed on paper.
Electrum is a pure python application. If you want to use the Qt interface, install the Qt dependencies:
sudo apt-get install python-qt4
If you downloaded the official package (tar.gz), 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:
./vialectrum
You can also install Electrum on your system, by running this command:
python2 setup.py install
This will download and install the Python dependencies used by Electrum, instead of using the 'packages' directory.
If you cloned the git repository, you need to compile extra files before you can run Electrum. Read the next section, "Development Version".
Check out the code from Github:
git clone git://github.com/pooler/vialectrum.git
cd vialectrum
Run install (this should install dependencies):
python2 setup.py install
Compile the icons file for Qt:
sudo apt-get install pyqt4-dev-tools
pyrcc4 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
2 Create translations (optional):
sudo apt-get install python-pycurl gettext
./contrib/make_locale
To create binaries, create the 'packages' directory:
./contrib/make_packages
This directory contains the python dependencies used by Electrum.
# On MacPorts installs:
sudo python setup-release.py py2app
# On Homebrew installs:
ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" sudo python setup-release.py py2app --includes sip
sudo hdiutil create -fs HFS+ -volname "Vialectrum" -srcfolder dist/Vialectrum.app dist/vialectrum-VERSION-macosx.dmg
See contrib/build-wine/README file.
See gui/kivy/Readme.txt file.