ELCASH Wallet - Lightweight Electric Cash client

Licence: MIT Licence
Language: Python (>= 3.6)
Homepage: https://electriccash.global/

Getting started

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

ELCASH Wallet 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, cryptography is required. Install from your package manager (or from pip):

sudo apt-get install python3-cryptography

Running from tar.gz

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

./run_electrum

You can also install ELCASH Wallet 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 ELCASH Wallet instead of using the 'packages' directory. It will also place an executable named elcash-wallet in ~/.local/bin, so make sure that is on your PATH variable.

Development version (git clone)

Check out the code from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/electric-cash/elcash-wallet.git
cd elcash-wallet
git submodule update --init

Run install (this should install dependencies):

python3 -m pip install --user -e .

Finally, to start ELCASH Wallet:

./run_electrum

Creating Binaries

Linux (tarball)

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

Linux (AppImage)

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

Windows

See contrib/build-wine/README.md.