Electrum-LTC - Lightweight Litecoin Wallet

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Getting Started

Electrum-LTC 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 Electrum-LTC from its root directory without installing it on your system; all the Python dependencies are included in the 'packages' directory. To run Electrum-LTC from its root directory, simply run:

./run_electrum

You can also install Electrum-LTC on your system by running:

sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools
python3 -m pip install .[fast]

This will download and install the Python dependencies used by Electrum-LTC instead of using the 'packages' directory. The 'fast' extra contains some optional dependencies that are often useful, but not strictly needed.

If you cloned the Git repository, you need to compile extra files before you can run Electrum-LTC. Read the next section, "Development Version".

Development Version

To get the code from GitHub:

git clone git://github.com/pooler/electrum-ltc.git
cd electrum-ltc
git submodule update --init

To install the dependencies:

python3 -m pip install .[fast]

To compile the protobuf description file:

sudo apt-get install protobuf-compiler
protoc --proto_path=electrum_ltc --python_out=electrum_ltc electrum_ltc/paymentrequest.proto

To create translations (optional):

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

Creating Binaries

Linux (tarball)

See contrib/build-linux/README.md.

Linux (AppImage)

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

macOS

See contrib/osx/README.md.

Windows

See contrib/build-wine/README.md.