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PyBitmessage Installation Instructions
- Binary (no separate installation of dependencies required)
- windows (32bit only): https://download.bitmessage.org/snapshots/
- linux (64bit): https://appimage.bitmessage.org/releases/
- mac (64bit, not up to date): https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage/releases/tag/v0.6.3
- Source git clone git://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage.git
Helper Script for building from source
Go to the directory with PyBitmessage source code and run:
python checkdeps.py
If there are missing dependencies, it will explain you what is missing and for many Unix-like systems also what you have to do to resolve it. You need to repeat calling the script until you get nothing mandatory missing. How you then run setuptools depends on whether you want to install it to user's directory or system.
If checkdeps fails, then verify manually which dependencies are missing from below
Before running PyBitmessage, make sure you have all the necessary dependencies installed on your system.
These dependencies may not be available on a recent OS and PyBitmessage may not build on such systems. Here's a list of dependencies needed for PyBitmessage based on operating system
For Debian-based (Ubuntu, Raspbian, PiBang, others)
python2.7 openssl libssl-dev git python-msgpack python-qt4 python-six
For Arch Linux
python2 openssl git python2-pyqt4 python-six
For Fedora
python python-qt4 git openssl-compat-bitcoin-libs python-six
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
python python-qt4 git openssl-compat-bitcoin-libs python-six
For GNU Guix
python2-msgpack python2-pyqt@4.11.4 python2-sip openssl python-six
setuptools
This is now the recommended and in most cases the easiest procedure for installing PyBitmessage.
There are 3 options for running setuptools: root, user, venv
as root:
python setup.py install
pybitmessage
as user:
python setup.py install --user
~/.local/bin/pybitmessage
as venv:
Create virtualenv with Python 2.x version
virtualenv -p python2 env
Activate env
source env/bin/activate
Install requirements.txt
pip install -r requirements.txt
Build & run pybitmessage
python setup.py install
pybitmessage
Alternative way to run PyBitmessage, without setuptools (this isn't recommended)
run src/bitmessagemain.py.
cd PyBitmessage/ && python src/bitmessagemain.py