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Installing the LBRY app
Installing LBRY is simple. You can get a dmg installer for OS X or a .deb for linux here.
OS X
Drag and drop LBRY.app into your applications folder (replacing any older versions). When it's running you'll have a LBRY icon in your status bar and the browser will open to the UI.
Linux
Double click the .deb file and follow the prompts. The app can be started by searching "LBRY", and it can be turned off by clicking the red 'x' in the browser interface.
On both systems you can also open the UI while the app is running by going to lbry://lbry in Firefox or Safari, or localhost:5279 in Chrome.
Installing LBRY from source
Installing LBRY from source is not the recommended way to install LBRY. Only do so if you're interested in doing development work.
OS X Prerequisites
In order to install LBRY from source you'll need to first install xcode command line tools and homebrew. The dependencies can then be installed by running
brew install mpfr libmpc
sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install virtualenv
Linux Prerequisites
On Ubuntu or Mint you can install the prerequisites by running
sudo apt-get install libgmp3-dev build-essential python2.7 python2.7-dev \
python-pip git python-virtualenv libssl-dev libffi-dev
OSX and Linux Installation
It is strongly recommended to create a new virtualenv for LBRY
virtualenv lbry-venv
source lbry-venv/bin/activate
and install the package in the new virtualenv:
git clone https://github.com/lbryio/lbry.git
cd lbry
python setup.py install
To start LBRY, run lbrynet-daemon in a terminal.
On windows
Install mingw32 base and c++ compiler.
Add C:\MinGW\bin to the windows PATH.
Enable distutils to compile with mingw32 by creating a distutils.cfg file in PYTHONPATH\Lib\distutils containing
[build]
compiler = mingw32
If using virtualenv, copy the PYTHONPATH\Lib\distutils directory to the virtualenv.
It's recommended to use Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages for as many of the required packages as possible. Currently, available binaries include:
- Cython
- Twisted
- Zope.interface
- pywin32
- Yapsy
- cx_Freeze
- requests
- gmpy
Install the each of the preceding binaries with pip install *.whl
Install pywin32 system files by run python.exe Scripts\pywin32_postinstall.py -install from an elevated command prompt.
Install the rest of the required modules with the standard pip install module command
The one module which requires additional work is miniupnpc.
Download the source and compile with MinGW by running mingw32make.bat
Then install the module by running python setupmingw32.py install