timprove readme - electrum - Electrum Bitcoin wallet
HTML git clone https://git.parazyd.org/electrum
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DIR commit 90f022cc033e95eaad9d8763bafa1ad18daf84ef
DIR parent 4cc76c8a64ef41efb05a1e5f83e6416a4beb588e
HTML Author: ThomasV <thomasv@electrum.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 12:12:10 +0200
improve readme
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DIR diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
t@@ -32,6 +32,13 @@ directory. To run Electrum from its root directory, just do::
./electrum
+You can also install Electrum on your system, by running this command::
+
+ python setup.py install
+
+This will download and install the Python dependencies used by
+Electrum, instead of using the 'packages' directory.
+
If you cloned the git repository, then you need to compile extra files
before you can run Electrum. Read the next section, "Development
Version".
t@@ -60,31 +67,13 @@ Compile the protobuf description file::
sudo apt-get install protobuf-compiler
protoc --proto_path=lib/ --python_out=lib/ lib/paymentrequest.proto
-Create translations::
+Create translations (optional)::
sudo apt-get install python-pycurl gettext
./contrib/make_locale
-Install on Linux systems
-========================
-
-If you install Electrum on your system, you can run it from any
-directory.
-
-If you have pip, you can do::
-
- python setup.py sdist
- sudo pip install --pre dist/Electrum-2.0.tar.gz
-
-
-If you don't have pip, install with::
-
- python setup.py sdist
- sudo python setup.py install
-
-
Creating Binaries
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