LBRY App

The LBRY app is a graphical browser for the decentralized content marketplace provided by the LBRY protocol. It is essentially the lbry daemon bundled with a UI using Electron.

Install

We provide installers for Windows, macOS (v10.12.4, Sierra, or greater), and Debian-based Linux. See community maintained builds section for alternative Linux installations.

	Windows	macOS	Linux
Latest Stable Release	Download	Download	Download
Latest Pre-release	Download	Download	Download

Our releases page also contains the latest release, pre-releases, and past builds.
Note: If the deb fails to install using the Ubuntu Software Center, install manually via sudo dpkg -i <path to deb>. You'll need to run sudo apt-get install -f if this is the first time installing it to install dependencies

To install from source or make changes to the application, continue to the next section below.

Community maintained builds for Arch Linux and Flatpak are available, see below. These installs will need to be updated manually as the in-app update process only supports Debian installs at this time. Note: If coming from a deb install, the directory structure is different and you'll need to migrate data.

	Flatpak	Arch	Raspberry Pi
Latest Release	FlatHub Page	AUR Package	Pi Installer
Maintainers	@choofee/@iuyte	@kcseb/@TimurKiyivinski	@Madiator2011

Usage

Double click the installed application to interact with the LBRY network.

Running from Source

Note: We are currently undergoing a lot of internal build changes. Linux doesn't seem to be working at the moment.

Prerequisites

Git
Node.js (Use Node v8 if having trouble with keytar)
Yarn
C++ Build Tools (Windows only, only install if having trouble with keytar)

Steps

Clone (or fork) this repository: git clone https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-desktop
Change directories into the downloaded folder: cd lbry-desktop
Install the dependencies: yarn
Compile the app and run it: yarn dev

If you want to just build the app you can run yarn build. This will give you an executable inside the /dist folder. We use electron-builder to create distributable packages.

Resetting your Packages

If the app isn't building, or yarn xxx commands aren't working you may need to just reset your node_modules. To do so you can run: rm -r node_modules && yarn or del /s /q node_modules && yarn on Windows.

If you really think something might have gone wrong, you can force your repo to clear everything that doesn't match the repo with git reset --hard HEAD && git clean -fxd && git pull -r

Contributing

We ❤️ contributions from everyone and contributions to this project are encouraged, and compensated. We welcome bug reports, bug fixes and feedback is always appreciated. For more details, see CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

This project is MIT licensed. For the full license, see LICENSE.

Security

We take security seriously. Please contact security@lbry.io regarding any security issues. Our PGP key is here if you need it.

Contact

The primary contact for this project is @seanyesmunt.

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