Forked from spesmilo/electrum: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum

Licence: MIT Licence
Author: Thomas Voegtlin
Language: Python
Homepage: https://electrum.org/

Electrum is a pure python application. If you want to use the Qt interface, install the Qt dependencies.

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:

./electrum

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/BTCP-community/electrum-zcl.git
cd electrum-zcl

Using Homebrew:

# Install Homebrew
            /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

            # (Optionally)
            sudo chown -R "$USER":admin /usr/local
            sudo chown -R "$USER":admin /Library/Caches/Homebrew

# Install python3
            brew install python3
            brew link python3
            brew postinstall python3

            # Python setuptools
            curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py -o - | python3

# Install pyqt5
            pip3 install pyqt5

            # Setup
            python3 setup.py install
            pyrcc5 icons.qrc -o gui/qt/icons_rc.py

            # Run
            ./electrum

Alternatively, copy the generated build/scripts-3.6/electrum to the main directory:

cp -f build/scripts-3.6/electrum electrum-mac
./electrum-mac

Install Dependencies:

sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5
sudo pip2 install pyblake2

sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools
python3 setup.py install

Compile the icons file for QT:

sudo apt-get install pyqt5-dev-tools
pyrcc5 icons.qrc -o gui/qt/icons_rc.py

For the linux app launcher (start menu) icon:

sudo desktop-file-install electrum.desktop

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

Run:

./electrum

There are several useful scripts in:

scripts

This is a good initial check to determine whether things are working.:

cd scripts
python3 block_headers

It should run, validating chunks without error.

Also be sure to check out::

~/.electrum-zcl/

`~/.electrum-zcl/wallets/` has your wallet files - this folder can be backed up.

`~/.electrum-zcl/config` has your Electrum connection object.

To create binaries, create the 'packages' directory:

./contrib/make_packages

This directory contains the python dependencies used by Electrum.

# On MacPorts installs:
sudo python3 setup-release.py py2app

# On Homebrew installs:
ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" sudo python3 setup-release.py py2app --includes sip

sudo hdiutil create -fs HFS+ -volname "Electrum" -srcfolder dist/Electrum.app dist/electrum-VERSION-macosx.dmg

See contrib/build-wine/README file.

See gui/kivy/Readme.txt file.