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Monero is a private, secure, untraceable, decentralised digital currency. You are your bank, you control your funds, and nobody can trace your transfers unless you allow them to do so.
Privacy: Monero uses a cryptographically sound system to allow you to send and receive funds without your transactions being easily revealed on the blockchain (the ledger of transactions that everyone has). This ensures that your purchases, receipts, and all transfers remain absolutely private by default.
Security: Using the power of a distributed peer-to-peer consensus network, every transaction on the network is cryptographically secured. Individual wallets have a 25 word mnemonic seed that is only displayed once, and can be written down to backup the wallet. Wallet files are encrypted with a passphrase to ensure they are useless if stolen.
Untraceability: By taking advantage of ring signatures, a special property of a certain type of cryptography, Monero is able to ensure that transactions are not only untraceable, but have an optional measure of ambiguity that ensures that transactions cannot easily be tied back to an individual user or computer.
This is the GUI for the core Monero implementation. It is open source and completely free to use without restrictions, except for those specified in the license agreement below. There are no restrictions on anyone creating an alternative implementation of Monero that uses the protocol and network in a compatible manner.
As with many development projects, the repository on Github is considered to be the "staging" area for the latest changes. Before changes are merged into that branch on the main repository, they are tested by individual developers in their own branches, submitted as a pull request, and then subsequently tested by contributors who focus on testing and code reviews. That having been said, the repository should be carefully considered before using it in a production environment, unless there is a patch in the repository for a particular show-stopping issue you are experiencing. It is generally a better idea to use a tagged release for stability.
Monero is a 100% community-sponsored endeavor. If you want to join our efforts, the easiest thing you can do is support the project financially. Both Monero and Bitcoin donations can be made to donate.getmonero.org if using a client that supports the OpenAlias standard.
The Monero donation address is: 44AFFq5kSiGBoZ4NMDwYtN18obc8AemS33DBLWs3H7otXft3XjrpDtQGv7SqSsaBYBb98uNbr2VBBEt7f2wfn3RVGQBEP3A
(viewkey: f359631075708155cc3d92a32b75a7d02a5dcf27756707b47a2b31b21c389501
)
The Bitcoin donation address is: 1KTexdemPdxSBcG55heUuTjDRYqbC5ZL8H
GUI development funding and/or some supporting services are also graciously provided by sponsors:
There are also several mining pools that kindly donate a portion of their fees, a list of them can be found on our Bitcointalk post.
See LICENSE.
Do you speak a second language and would like to help translate the Monero GUI? Sign up at translate.getmonero.org, our localization platform. Navigate to the 'monero-gui' project and find the language you can help with. Suggest changes or add new translated text.
If you need help/support or any info you can contact the localization workgroup on the IRC channel #monero-translations (relayed on matrix/riot and MatterMost) or by email at translate[at]getmonero[dot]org. For more info about the Localization workgroup: github.com/monero-ecosystem/monero-translations
Packages are available for
- Arch Linux via AUR: monero-wallet-qt
- Void Linux: xbps-install -S monero-core
- GuixSD: guix package -i monero-core
Packaging for your favorite distribution would be a welcome contribution!
(Tested on Ubuntu 17.10 x64, Ubuntu 18.04 x64 and Gentoo x64)
- Install Monero dependencies
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For Debian distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Tails...)
sudo apt install build-essential cmake libboost-all-dev miniupnpc libunbound-dev graphviz doxygen libunwind8-dev pkg-config libssl-dev libzmq3-dev libsodium-dev libhidapi-dev
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For Gentoo
sudo emerge app-arch/xz-utils app-doc/doxygen dev-cpp/gtest dev-libs/boost dev-libs/expat dev-libs/openssl dev-util/cmake media-gfx/graphviz net-dns/unbound net-libs/ldns net-libs/miniupnpc net-libs/zeromq sys-libs/libunwind dev-libs/libsodium dev-libs/hidapi
- Install Qt:
Note: Qt 5.7 is the minimum version required to build the GUI. This makes some distributions (mostly based on debian, like Ubuntu 16.x or Linux Mint 18.x) obsolete. You can still build the GUI if you install an official Qt release, but this is not officially supported.
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For Ubuntu 17.10+
sudo apt install qtbase5-dev qt5-default qtdeclarative5-dev qml-module-qtquick-controls qml-module-qtquick-controls2 qml-module-qtquick-dialogs qml-module-qtquick-xmllistmodel qml-module-qt-labs-settings qml-module-qt-labs-folderlistmodel qttools5-dev-tools qml-module-qtquick-templates2
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For Gentoo
sudo emerge dev-qt/qtcore:5 dev-qt/qtdeclarative:5 dev-qt/qtquickcontrols:5 dev-qt/qtquickcontrols2:5 dev-qt/qtgraphicaleffects:5
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Optional : To build the flag
WITH_SCANNER
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For Ubuntu
sudo apt install qtmultimedia5-dev qml-module-qtmultimedia libzbar-dev
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For Gentoo
The qml USE flag must be enabled.
emerge dev-qt/qtmultimedia:5 media-gfx/zbar
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Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui.git
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Build
cd monero-gui QT_SELECT=5 ./build.sh
The executable can be found in the build/release/bin folder.
brew install boost --c++11
brew install openssl
- to install openssl headers
brew install pkgconfig
brew install cmake
brew install zeromq
Note: If cmake can not find zmq.hpp file on OS X, installing zmq.hpp
from https://github.com/zeromq/cppzmq to /usr/local/include
should fix that error.
- Install Qt:
brew install qt5
(or download QT 5.8+ from qt.io)
If you have an older version of Qt installed via homebrew, you can force it to use 5.x like so:
brew link --force --overwrite qt5
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Add the Qt bin directory to your path
Example:
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/Qt/5.8/clang_64/bin
This is the directory where Qt 5.x is installed on your system
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Grab an up-to-date copy of the monero-gui repository
git clone https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui.git
- Go into the repository
cd monero-gui
- Start the build
./build.sh
The executable can be found in the build/release/bin
folder.
Note: Workaround for "ERROR: Xcode not set up properly"
Edit $HOME/Qt/5.8/clang_64/mkspecs/features/mac/default_pre.prf
replace
isEmpty($$list($$system("/usr/bin/xcrun -find xcrun 2>/dev/null")))
with
isEmpty($$list($$system("/usr/bin/xcrun -find xcodebuild 2>/dev/null")))
More info: http://stackoverflow.com/a/35098040/1683164
The Monero GUI on Windows is 64 bits only; 32-bit Windows GUI builds are not officially supported anymore.
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Install MSYS2, follow the instructions on that page on how to update system and packages to the latest versions
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Open an 64-bit MSYS2 shell: Use the MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit shortcut, or use the
msys2_shell.cmd
batch file with a-mingw64
parameter -
Install MSYS2 packages for Monero dependencies; the needed 64-bit packages have
x86_64
in their namespacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain make mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake mingw-w64-x86_64-boost mingw-w64-x86_64-openssl mingw-w64-x86_64-zeromq mingw-w64-x86_64-libsodium mingw-w64-x86_64-hidapi
Optional : To build the flag
WITH_SCANNER
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-zbar
You find more details about those dependencies in the Monero documentation. Note that that there is no more need to compile Boost from source; like everything else, you can install it now with a MSYS2 package.
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Install Qt5
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5
There is no more need to download some special installer from the Qt website, the standard MSYS2 package for Qt will do in almost all circumstances.
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Install git
pacman -S git
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Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui.git
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Build
cd monero-gui source ./build.sh release-static cd build make deploy
Note: The use of
source
above is a dirty workaround for a suspected bug in the current QT version 5.11.2-3 available in the MSYS2 packaging system, see monero-project#1559 for more info.
The executable can be found in the .\release\bin
directory.