On Ubuntu/Linux Mint you can try to install AXE Electrum with next commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:axerunners/axe-electrum sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install axe-electrum
AXE Electrum is a pure python application. If you want to use the Qt interface, install the Qt dependencies:
sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5
If you downloaded the official package (tar.gz), you can run AXE Electrum from its root directory, without installing it on your system; all the python dependencies are included in the 'packages' directory (except x11-hash).
To install x11-hash dependency in the 'packages' dir run once:
pip3 install -t packages x11-hash
To run AXE Electrum from its root directory, just do:
./electrum-axe
You can also install AXE Electrum on your system, by running this command:
sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools pip3 install .[fast]
This will download and install the Python dependencies used by AXE 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 AXE Electrum. Read the next section, "Development Version".
Starting from AXE Electrum release 3.2.3.2 automatic Tor Proxy detection and use on wallet startup is added to Network preferences.
To use Tor Proxy on Ubuntu set it up with:
sudo apt-get install tor sudo service tor start
Other platforms setup is described at docs/tor.md
Check out the code from GitHub:
git clone https://github.com/axerunners/electrum-axe.git cd electrum-axe
Run install (this should install dependencies):
pip3 install .[fast]
Render the SVG icons to PNGs (optional):
for i in lock unlock confirmed status_lagging status_disconnected status_connected_proxy status_connected status_waiting preferences; do convert -background none icons/$i.svg icons/$i.png; done
Compile the icons file for Qt:
sudo apt-get install pyqt5-dev-tools pyrcc5 icons.qrc -o electrum_axe/gui/qt/icons_rc.py
Compile the protobuf description file:
sudo apt-get install protobuf-compiler protoc --proto_path=electrum_axe --python_out=electrum_axe electrum_axe/paymentrequest.proto
Create translations (optional):
sudo apt-get install python-requests gettext ./contrib/make_locale
To create binaries, create the 'packages' directory:
./contrib/make_packages
This directory contains the python dependencies used by AXE Electrum.
See electrum_axe/gui/kivy/Readme.txt file.