development_on_linux.rst

This section contains information about setting up a Tribler development environment on Linux systems.

Debian/Ubuntu/Mint

First, install the required dependencies by executing the following command in your terminal:

sudo apt install git ffmpeg libssl-dev libx11-6 vlc libgmp-dev python3 python3-minimal python3-pip python3-libtorrent python3-pyqt5 python3-pyqt5.qtsvg python3-scipy

Secondly, install python packages

pip3 install bitcoinlib chardet configobj decorator dnspython ecdsa feedparser jsonrpclib matplotlib netifaces networkx pbkdf2 pony protobuf psutil pyaes pyasn1 pysocks requests lz4 pyqtgraph

Then, install py-ipv8 python dependencies

cd src/pyipv8
pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt

You can now clone the Tribler source code, and run Tribler by executing the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/tribler/tribler --recursive
cd tribler/src
./tribler.sh

Alternatively, you can run the latest stable version of Tribler by downloading and installing the .deb file from here. This option is only recommended for running Tribler and is not suitable for development.

If there are any problems with the guide above, please feel free to fix any errors or create an issue so we can look into it.