Licence: MIT Licence Author: Thomas Voegtlin Language: Python (>= 3.6) Homepage: https://electrum.org/
Electrum itself is pure Python, and so are most of the required dependencies.
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:
./contrib/make_libsecp256k1.sh
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:
./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.
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/spesmilo/electrum.git cd electrum git submodule update --init
Run install (this should install dependencies):
python3 -m pip install --user .
Create translations (optional):
sudo apt-get install python-requests gettext ./contrib/pull_locale
See contrib/build-linux/README.md.
See contrib/build-linux/appimage/README.md.
See contrib/osx/README.md.
See contrib/build-wine/README.md.
See electrum/gui/kivy/Readme.md.