Installing LBRY

The recommended way to install LBRY is to use an installer. We provide installers for all major operating systems. See the README.

These instructions are for installing from source code, which is recommended if you are interested in doing development work or LBRY is not available on your operating system (good luck, TempleOS users).

Prerequisites

Before starting, you'll need to install some additional libraries depending on your operating system.

OS X Prerequisites

Install xcode command line tools and homebrew.

Remaining dependencies can then be installed by running:

brew install mpfr libmpc
sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install virtualenv

Linux Prerequisites

On Ubuntu (we recommend 16.04), install the following:

sudo apt-get install libgmp3-dev build-essential python2.7 python2.7-dev \
     python-pip git python-virtualenv libssl-dev libffi-dev

If you're running another Linux flavor, install the equivalent of the above packages for your system.

Windows Prerequisites

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, which is recommended, 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.

Finally, you'll need miniupnpc. Download the source and compile with MinGW by running mingw32make.bat. Then, install the module by running python setupmingw32.py install.

Installation

We strongly recommend creating a new virtualenv for LBRY:

virtualenv lbry-venv
source lbry-venv/bin/activate

Then, install the package in the new virtualenv:

git clone https://github.com/lbryio/lbry.git
cd lbry
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install .

To start LBRY, run lbrynet-daemon in a terminal.

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