Installation

The minimal working python version is 3.5.x

nectar can be installed parallel to python-steem/beem.

For Debian and Ubuntu, please ensure that the following packages are installed:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev python-dev curl

For Fedora and RHEL-derivatives, please ensure that the following packages are installed:

sudo yum install gcc openssl-devel python-devel

For OSX, please do the following:

brew install openssl
export CFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include $CFLAGS"
export LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib $LDFLAGS"

For Termux on Android, please install the following packages:

pkg install clang openssl-dev python-dev

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py

python get-pip.py

Signing and Verify can be fasten (200 %) by installing cryptography. Install cryptography with pip:

pip install -U cryptography

Install nectar with pip:

pip install -U hive-nectar

Sometimes this does not work. Please try:

pip3 install -U hive-nectar

or:

python -m pip install hive-nectar

Manual installation

You can install nectar from this repository if you want the latest but possibly non-compiling version:

git clone https://github.com/thecrazygm/hive-nectar.git
cd hive-nectar
uv sync
uv sync --dev

Run tests after install:

pytest

Add the following for enabling logging in your python script:

import logging
log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)

When you want to see only critical errors, replace the last line by:

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.CRITICAL)