Electrum Bitcoin Wallet
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Licence: MIT Licence Author: Thomas Voegtlin Language: Python (>= 3.6) Homepage: https://electrum.org/
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(If you've come here looking to simply run Electrum,
you may download it here_.)
.. _you may download it here: https://electrum.org/#download
Electrum itself is pure Python, and so are most of the required dependencies, but not everything. The following sections describe how to run from source, but here is a TL;DR::
sudo apt-get install libsecp256k1-0 python3 -m pip install --user .[gui,crypto]
If you want to use the Qt interface, install the Qt dependencies::
sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5
For elliptic curve operations,
libsecp256k1_ is a required dependency::
sudo apt-get install libsecp256k1-0
Alternatively, when running from a cloned repository, a script is provided to build libsecp256k1 yourself::
sudo apt-get install automake libtool ./contrib/make_libsecp256k1.sh
Due to the need for fast symmetric ciphers,
cryptography_ is required. Install from your package manager (or from pip)::
sudo apt-get install python3-cryptography
If you would like hardware wallet support, see
this_.
.. _libsecp256k1: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1 .. _pycryptodomex: https://github.com/Legrandin/pycryptodome .. _cryptography: https://github.com/pyca/cryptography .. _this: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum-docs/blob/master/hardware-linux.rst
If you downloaded the official package (tar.gz), you can run Electrum from its root directory without installing it on your system; all the pure python dependencies are included in the 'packages' directory. To run Electrum from its root directory, just do::
./run_electrum
You can also install Electrum on your system, by running this command::
sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools python3-pip python3 -m pip install --user .
This will download and install the Python dependencies used by Electrum instead of using the 'packages' directory. It will also place an executable named :code:
electrumin :code:
~/.local/bin, so make sure that is on your :code:
PATHvariable.
Check out the code from GitHub::
git clone git://github.com/spesmilo/electrum.git cd electrum git submodule update --init
Run install (this should install dependencies)::
python3 -m pip install --user -e .
Create translations (optional)::
sudo apt-get install python-requests gettext ./contrib/pull_locale
Finally, to start Electrum::
./run_electrum
See :code:
contrib/build-linux/sdist/README.md.
See :code:
contrib/build-linux/appimage/README.md.
See :code:
contrib/osx/README.md.
See :code:
contrib/build-wine/README.md.
See :code:
contrib/android/Readme.md.