Licence: GNU GPLv3+ for Electrum-DOGE components; CC BY 4.0 for Namecoin logo, MIT Licence for all other components Author: The Xaya developers; based on Electrum by Thomas Voegtlin, Electrum-DOGE by The Electrum-DOGE contributors and Electrum-NMC by the Namecoin developers Language: Python (>= 3.6) Homepage: https://www.xaya.io/ ; original Electrum Homepage at https://electrum.org/
Electrum-CHI 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 libsecp256k1-0 python3 -m pip install --user .[gui,crypto]
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-CHI from its root directory without installing it on your system; all the pure python dependencies are included in the 'packages' directory. To run Electrum-CHI from its root directory, just do:
./run_electrum_chi
You can also install Electrum-CHI 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-CHI instead of using the 'packages' directory.
It will also place an executable named electrum-chi in ~/.local/bin,
so make sure that is on your PATH variable.
Check out the code from GitHub:
git clone git://github.com/xaya/electrum-chi.git cd electrum-chi git submodule update --init
Run install (this should install dependencies):
python3 -m pip install --user -e .
Compile the Qt UI:
sudo apt-get install pyqt5-dev-tools ./contrib/make_qt_forms
Copy over the www root:
rm -rf electrum_nmc/electrum/www cp -a electrum/www electrum_nmc/electrum/www
Create translations (optional):
sudo apt-get install python-requests gettext ./contrib/pull_locale
Finally, to start Electrum:
./run_electrum_chi
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.