Vialectrum - Lightweight Viacoin client

Vialectrum is a port of Electrum, the Bitcoin wallet, to Viacoin.

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Licence: MIT Licence Original Author: Thomas Voegtlin Port Maintainer: Romano Language: Python (>= 3.6) Homepage: https://vialectrum.org/

Getting started

(If you've come here looking to simply run Electrum, you may download it here_.)

Vialectrum 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]

Not pure-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::

sudo apt-get install automake libtool
./contrib/make_libsecp256k1.sh

Due to the need for fast symmetric ciphers, either one of pycryptodomex_ or 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_.

.. _libsecp256k1: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1 .. _pycryptodomex: https://github.com/Legrandin/pycryptodome .. _cryptography: https://github.com/pyca/cryptography .. _this: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum-docs/blob/master/hardware-linux.rst

Running from tar.gz

If you downloaded the official package (tar.gz), you can run Vialectrum from its root directory without installing it on your system; all the pure python dependencies are included in the 'packages' directory. To run Vialectrum from its root directory, just do::

./run_electrum

You can also install Vialectrum 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 Vialectrum instead of using the 'packages' directory. It will also place an executable named :code:vialectrum in :code:~/.local/bin, so make sure that is on your :code:PATH variable.

Development version (git clone)

Check out the code from GitHub::

git clone git://github.com/viacoin/vialectrum.git
cd vialectrum
git submodule update --init

Run install (this should install dependencies)::

python3 -m pip install --user -e .

Create translations (optional)::

sudo apt-get install python-requests gettext
./contrib/pull_locale

Finally, to start Electrum-LTC::

./run_electrum

Creating Binaries

Linux (tarball)

See :code:contrib/build-linux/sdist/README.md.

Linux (AppImage)

See :code:contrib/build-linux/appimage/README.md.

Mac OS X / macOS

See :code:contrib/osx/README.md.

Windows

See :code:contrib/build-wine/README.md.

Android

See :code:contrib/android/Readme.md.