Electrum - lightweight Bitcoin client

Licence: GNU GPL v3
Author: Thomas Voegtlin
Language: Python
Homepage: https://electrum.org/


1. GETTING STARTED
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To run Electrum from this directory, just do:

  ./electrum

If you install Electrum on your system, you can run it from any
directory:

  sudo python setup.py install
  electrum


To start Electrum from your web browser, see
http://electrum.org/bitcoin_URIs.html



2. HOW OFFICIAL PACKAGES ARE CREATED
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python mki18n.py
pyrcc4 icons.qrc -o gui/qt/icons_rc.py
python setup.py sdist --format=zip,gztar

On Mac OS X:

  # On port based installs
  sudo python setup-release.py py2app

  # On brew installs
  ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" sudo python setup-release.py py2app --includes sip

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