May 23, 2020. Operating System Compatibility. As explained earlier, Electrum is supporting only the BTC coin, so basically there isn’t much to say about the coin support. I would like to talk you about the operating systems. It’s supporting all the Desktop editions – Windows, Linux and Mac.
File Description | Download |
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ellipticSecure Device Manager for Windows | (or out of store installer) |
ellipticSecure Device Manager for Mac OS | (or out of store installer) |
ellipticSecure Device Manager for Ubuntu 18.04 and later | |
Electrum Bitcoin wallet for Windows with MIRkey plugin | source code |
Electrum Bitcoin wallet for Mac with MIRkey plugin | source code |
PKCS#11 Shared Library for 64bit Windows, Version 2.7 | |
PKCS#11 Shared Library for 32bit Windows, Version 2.7 | |
PKCS#11 Shared Library for Mac OS, Version 2.7 | |
PKCS#11 Shared Library for Ubuntu 18.04 and later, Version 2.7 | |
Java integration library | |
Python integration library | |
Rust integration library | |
Microsoft CNG Key Storage Provider for Windows (32bit and 64bit), Version 1.6 | |
eHSM Network Daemon for Windows, Version 1.5 | |
eHSM Network Daemon for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Version 1.5 |
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It’s important that after you download Electrum you verify it to ensure that it is the real deal and not some malware. The way to do that is to verify the GPG signature of the maintainer Thomas Voegtlin. Here’s how you do that on various platforms.
Windows
- Start by downloading GPG4Win and the install it. When installing you only need the Kleopatra component so you can skip the other things included with the software.
- Download Electrum and also the signature for the file you downloaded. Save both to the same folder.
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Run Kleopatra by double clicking on its icon on the desktop. Then click on “lookup on server” on the toolbar and enter Thomas’ GPG public key fingerprint: 6694D8DE7BE8EE5631BED9502BD5824B7F9470E6. It should return only one result. Click on that and then click on import at the bottom of the window.If looking up the key via its fingerprint does not work download Thomas’ key from github instead, save it somewhere convenient and use the import button on the main kleopatra window to import it. This should create a new entry for Thomas’ key. Right click on that, click details and verify that the fingerprint matches 6694 D8DE 7BE8 EE56 31BE D950 2BD5 824B 7F94 70E6.
- Click on Decrypt/verify on the toolbar. A file open dialog box will appear. Navigate to the folder where you saved the Electrum download files and select the signature file. In the Win 10 file dialog box it should have a type of “OpenPGP Text File”.
- Once the signature has been successfully verified you should see this result in the window:
Don’t worry about the text in bold about data not verified. What matters is that it says that the signature was created with the certificate of ThomasV.For the record an invalid sig looks like this:
Note that the next time you want to verify an electrum download you can skip step 3 since you already have Thomas’ key in your key ring.
Linux
On Linux you can use this script to do the download, verification and install for you. Download it and run it with the version of electrum you want to install:
The script will only offer to install electrum for you if the GPG sig checks out.
Android
On Android all downloads are verified by the play store so you don’t have to do anything.
Mac OS
Download Electrum For Mac Osx
Instructions for Mac are given on Bitzuma.