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Title: Electrum no longer runs - No module named google.protobuf Post by: rebeltaz on February 15, 2016, 04:30:47 AM I haven't used Electrum in a while, but when I tried to run it tonight, I got:
Error: No module named google.protobuf. Try 'sudo pip install <module-name>' I tried to reinstall the electrum package (Ubuntu 14.04LTS) but that didn't help. Yeah... I know that is not what the error said to do, but I do not like google and don't go randomly installing ANYTHING google on my system. Why is this now happening when it used to run just fine? Thanks. Title: Re: Electrum no longer runs - No module named google.protobuf Post by: rokkyroad on February 15, 2016, 05:01:20 AM I run Electrum on a similar OS. How did you install Electrum? With sudo pip install ...? And the required python dependencies?
I can't help you but am going to watch this thread. That error is concerning and you were right not to install google.protobuf. Title: Re: Electrum no longer runs - No module named google.protobuf Post by: rebeltaz on February 16, 2016, 03:02:07 AM I used "sudo apt-get install" both originally and, adding --reinstall, last night. I don't know if this matters, but I believe I was running either Ubuntu 10.04LTS or 12.04 when I first installed Electrum. I have since "upgraded" to 14.04LTS, so...
Title: Re: Electrum no longer runs - No module named google.protobuf Post by: twister on February 16, 2016, 11:03:00 AM I used "sudo apt-get install" both originally and, adding --reinstall, last night. I don't know if this matters, but I believe I was running either Ubuntu 10.04LTS or 12.04 when I first installed Electrum. I have since "upgraded" to 14.04LTS, so... Not sure what it is but when you do the apt-get install, the package is downloaded from the repository and it is a very older version, when you do the pip install the electrum is downloaded from the website which is the latest version. Title: Re: Electrum no longer runs - No module named google.protobuf Post by: rebeltaz on February 17, 2016, 07:18:59 AM I used "sudo apt-get install" both originally and, adding --reinstall, last night. I don't know if this matters, but I believe I was running either Ubuntu 10.04LTS or 12.04 when I first installed Electrum. I have since "upgraded" to 14.04LTS, so... Not sure what it is but when you do the apt-get install, the package is downloaded from the repository and it is a very older version, when you do the pip install the electrum is downloaded from the website which is the latest version. I did not know that. When I ran pip instead of apt, it did an install of protobuf and Electrum seems to be running fine now. Thanks guys. |