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@@ -26,11 +26,28 @@ Electrum - Lightweight Bitcoin client
Getting started
===============
Electrum is a pure python application. If you want to use the
Qt interface, install the Qt dependencies::
Electrum itself is pure Python, and so are most of the required dependencies.
Non-python 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
Running from tar.gz
-------------------
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'
@@ -40,22 +57,19 @@ directory. To run Electrum from its root directory, just do::
You can also install Electrum on your system, by running this command::
sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools
python3 -m pip install .[fast]
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.
The 'fast' extra contains some optional dependencies that we think
are often useful but they are not strictly needed.
If you cloned the git repository, you need to compile extra files
before you can run Electrum. Read the next section, "Development
Version".
version".
Development version
===================
-------------------
Check out the code from GitHub::
@@ -65,7 +79,7 @@ Check out the code from GitHub::
Run install (this should install dependencies)::
python3 -m pip install .[fast]
python3 -m pip install --user .
Compile the protobuf description file::