algotides 1.0.1

GUI for Algorand algod and kmd deamon

Algo Tides

Description

This Python application is a graphic interface for the user who owns or have access to an Algorand node and would like to issue operations through a GUI rather than CLI. (i.e.: manage wallets and addresses, send transactions, save a contact list)

Installation

$ pip install algotides or you can download the .tar.gz package and install it that way.

Security

Please keep in mind that this software stores some serialized data inside <HOME_FOLDER>/.algo-tides.
As a result of this any user should put over this folder permissions that are stricter than usual.
It is possible to inject arbitrary code when deserializing jsonpickle files so please be mindful.

Requirements

• Python 3.7

Packages:

• PySide2
• py-algorand-sdk
• jsonpickle

Troubleshoot

• qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb"

  This step creates a symlink from the existing library to the needed library:

  on MXLinux 19.4:

  sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-util.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-util.so.1

  on Debian 10:

  sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-util.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-util.so.1