Licence: MIT Licence Author: Thomas Voegtlin Language: Python (>= 3.6) Homepage: https://electrum.org/
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Want to use Ledger? Make sure ledger live is closed.
Want to mine to hardware? See this article. Trezor has similar problems. It is recommended that you set up a software wallet and mine to that, then send to your hardware from there.
Interested in a pre-built binary? Find them here. Otherwise, continue reading.
Electrum Ravencoin is currently only supported for Qt-based software.
The master branch is not always guaranteed to be working as expected. If you would like to build from source or run raw python, please use the source from one of our releases.
Learn how to run your own ElectrumX Server.
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 python3 sudo apt-get install python3-pip sudo apt-get install python3-cryptography sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5 sudo apt-get install libsecp256k1-0 sudo apt-get install cmake sudo pip3 install virtualenv ./electrum-env
If you get a protobuf _internal_create_key error, run sudo pip install --upgrade protobuf
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.
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 electrum in ~/.local/bin,
so make sure that is on your PATH variable.
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 contrib/build-linux/sdist/README.md.
See contrib/build-linux/appimage/README.md.
See contrib/osx/README.md.
See contrib/build-wine/README.md.
See contrib/android/Readme.md.
Any help testing the software, reporting or fixing bugs, reviewing pull requests and recent changes, writing tests, or helping with outstanding issues is very welcome. Implementing new features, or improving/refactoring the codebase, is of course also welcome, but to avoid wasted effort, especially for larger changes, we encourage discussing these on the discord first.
Besides GitHub, most communication about Electrum development happens on discord, in the
#electrum-rvn-sig channel on discord.