README

Electrum - lightweight Bitcoin client

Licence: GNU GPL v3
Author: thomasv@bitcointalk.org
Language: Python
Homepage: http://electrum.org/


== INSTALL ==

  sudo python setup.py install


== RUN ==

To start Electrum in GUI mode, type:

  electrum

== HELP ==

Up-to-date information and documentation is on the wiki:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Electrum


== HOW OFFICIAL PACKAGES ARE CREATED ==

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


== BROWSER CONFIGURATION ==

See http://electrum.org/bitcoin_URIs.html