Armory 0.96.5

[goatpig]

Any possibility of Armory being released as an appimage?

I dont know what that is =/

[HCP]

I have putted address of my ARMORY wallet in my mining pool site & they have sent some bitcoins to it but my ARMORY wallet is not showing any thing and my wallet's balance is zero. what should I do?

Do you have Bitcoin Core installed and fully synced? Armory requires Bitcoin Core to be able to function properly... if you don't have Bitcoin Core installed, you will need to install it (and fully sync the blockchain) before Armory will be able to show your balance...

Suggest you create your own thread rather than posting in this one.

[johnlu]

Hi, I know this an open source project. But there's some time with no new release. Do you have any idea of how long it would take to release 0.97?

Thanks for your all your efforts guys :-)

[Carlton Banks]

@johnlu

there's a significant re-write of the code going on for 0.97, that sort of thing can take alot of time. It's better that it does (take some time), as it's a good opportunity to re-structure the codebase with a long term perspective in mind


not sure on the exact latest progress though, check github I guess

[johnlu]

Thanks Carlton!!

[goatpig]

Changes are taking place in the dev branch. A lot has changed and there's still a lot I want to add in there. The work is split with helping another project. Most of the progess with that project is shared with Armory and the code ends up in the Armory repo eventually.

The main bottleneck atm is moving from SWIG to another C++ to Python framework to allow for a shift to Py3 & Qt5. Also need to go over GUI for the new wallets. Mostly, the GUI needs to represent BIP32 wallet branches.

[droark]

The main bottleneck atm is moving from SWIG to another C++ to Python framework to allow for a shift to Py3 & Qt5.

As an update on that end, there have been three main holdups.

- The cppyy project is the main linchpin here. It's pretty slick, and Wim's a very smart guy. Alas, like any project, it has holes. We find 'em, we report 'em, we usually get a fix within a day or two. I want to say that this portion is close to being done.
- There's something in WebSocket that isn't working right with the GUI. I was trying to track it down when...
- ...due to Apple's stupidity, my VMs became unusable for a few weeks. They're kinda usable now but, until Apple issues a proper fix (and who knows if they will or if they'll try to force an upgrade to macOS 10.15), I may have to force a downgrade of my Mac. Thanks for nothing, Tim.

The switch from Py2 to Py3 remains to be done. We have somebody who has offered to help. I don't know if he's still interested, although I assume he is (contingent on his schedule). I'm pretty busy myself but will do what I can to help. This really needs to get done ASAP for a variety of reasons.

[VelhoDoRio]

Any possibility of Armory being released as an appimage?

I dont know what that is =/

https://appimage.org/

Electrum and Electrum-LTC are already using it.
https://electrum.org/#download

The downside is that is more slow.
But there is no need to install it or install system libraries.

I always build Armory from the git repository.
But for the offline machine, the signer, I have to do a few extras steps.

I have to clone the repo to a usb stick that has vfat file system.
Take the usb stick to the offline machine and clone it again.
And then build it there.

Having an appimage to use on the offline machine just for signing could be handy!

[Carlton Banks]

Having an appimage to use on the offline machine just for signing could be handy!

not really, as the offline machine must have the appimage package installed too, which compromises the security model


computer science solved this problem 40-50 years ago: the static binary (bitcoin itself is a static binary, all needed libraries by bitcoind/bitcoin-qt are packaged into the executable file)


appimage is trying to reinvent the wheel, and they actually managed to fail. they solved the problem of needing to install non-standard extra packages/libs by.... requiring an extra non-standard package/library. great idea. no, really.

[goatpig]

computer science solved this problem 40-50 years ago: the static binary (bitcoin itself is a static binary, all needed libraries by bitcoind/bitcoin-qt are packaged into the executable file)

To be fair, the only stuff Armory doesn't link to statically beside the C lib is Qt.

[Carlton Banks]

computer science solved this problem 40-50 years ago: the static binary (bitcoin itself is a static binary, all needed libraries by bitcoind/bitcoin-qt are packaged into the executable file)

To be fair, the only stuff Armory doesn't link to statically beside the C lib is Qt.

right. those libraries are so commonly used that it's not hard to work out a way of getting them to play nice with whatever Linux distro is shipping the most eccentric version of, which if we're honest is always Debian stable, lol. The common Debian joke is that you only need to remove 1 letter from "stable" and 2 from "unstable" to get the words "stale" and "usable"

[Donhobluesky]

This version will not run on my MacOS 10.14.6

[Carlton Banks]

getting Armory running on a Mac is not the easiest task. there are a few people on Bitcointalk who know the details, of which there are more than a few

[droark]

This version will not run on my MacOS 10.14.6

1)What is the exact problem that you're having?

2)I need to make a separate post, but just so that everybody knows, Armory won't run on 10.15 due to some changes Apple made. Please don't upgrade to it just yet.

[infosecwriter]

Ubuntu 20.04 has issues installing.

Missing dependencies python-qt4, python-twisted, python-psutil

---
electing previously unselected package armory.
(Reading database ... 245601 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack armory_0.96-gcc5.4_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking armory (0.96-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of armory:
 armory depends on python-qt4; however:
  Package python-qt4 is not installed.
 armory depends on python-twisted; however:
  Package python-twisted is not installed.
 armory depends on python-psutil; however:
  Package python-psutil is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package armory (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 armory

[goatpig]

Ubuntu 20 got rid of py2 I believe.

[arulbero]

Ubuntu 20.04 has issues installing.

Missing dependencies python-qt4, python-twisted, python-psutil

Ubuntu 20 got rid of py2 I believe.

computer science solved this problem 40-50 years ago: the static binary (bitcoin itself is a static binary, all needed libraries by bitcoind/bitcoin-qt are packaged into the executable file)

To be fair, the only stuff Armory doesn't link to statically beside the C lib is Qt.

Is it possible to have a release of Armory (executable file) that works on ubuntu 20.04?

With all needed libraries statically linked?

[goatpig]

Python isn't exactly a library, though it the interpreter can be loaded as one, but I digress. Yes, it's possible to freeze Armory on linux. But considering the cost to do so, you're better off running an older version (in a VM), or installing py2 on you Ubuntu 20 system. There will be a release sometimes this summer with a bunch of new stuff and a port to py3/qt5 which will fix a lot of compatibility stuff with modern OS.

[arulbero]

Python isn't exactly a library, though it the interpreter can be loaded as one, but I digress. Yes, it's possible to freeze Armory on linux. But considering the cost to do so, you're better off running an older version (in a VM), or installing py2 on you Ubuntu 20 system.

The installation of python2 is very simple: sudo apt-get install python2, but Pyqt4 is not available as package for 20.04. VM is the last resort.

There will be a release sometimes this summer with a bunch of new stuff and a port to py3/qt5 which will fix a lot of compatibility stuff with modern OS.

Very good news!!

[goatpig]

The installation of python2 is very simple: sudo apt-get install python2, but Pyqt4 is not available as package for 20.04. VM is the last resort.

There typically are archive servers with older packages that let you grab no longer supported libs like this. You could also install it from pip, though I believe a Ubuntu 19 VM is the better solution.