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Title: Is there a current Electrum wallet download for 32 Bit systems
Post by: Juli3344 on February 28, 2020, 02:24:28 PM
Is there a current Electrum wallet download for 32 Bit that runs on Linux (Mint)?


Title: Re: Is there a current Electrum wallet download for 32 Bit systems
Post by: TryNinja on February 28, 2020, 02:30:18 PM
Are you having any issue?

I thought Electrum worked on both 32 and 64 bits. Are you running it from Python?


Title: Re: Is there a current Electrum wallet download for 32 Bit systems
Post by: Juli3344 on February 28, 2020, 02:38:45 PM
I have tried it under
Appimage
and
Python sources,
but it does not work.
I am looking for the reason, but can't find it. So my last idea is (perhaps?) my very old Laptop (32 Bit system).


Title: Re: Is there a current Electrum wallet download for 32 Bit systems
Post by: mk4 on February 28, 2020, 04:18:57 PM
I have tried it under
Appimage
and
Python sources,
but it does not work.

You might want to be more specific. What error are you getting? I've tried like 4 Linux distros(including Mint) and I had zero problems with every single one concerning Electrum.


Title: Re: Is there a current Electrum wallet download for 32 Bit systems
Post by: pooya87 on February 29, 2020, 01:18:08 PM
there should not be any issues for installing and using Electrum on a 32-bit OS as for example the binaries are already for 32-bit machines for windows (it is even installed under Program Files (x86) instead of Program Files). if you are facing any problems it might be a python related problem.
you can also check out this topic for a similar issue that was solved: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5182558.0


Title: Re: Is there a current Electrum wallet download for 32 Bit systems
Post by: Artemis3 on February 29, 2020, 02:27:23 PM
Since it's unknown whether Electrum support 32-bit OS or not, please try to run Electrum (whether it's appimage or python source) from terminal and see error printed by Python.

On a side note, i don't see any reason to use 32-bit OS since there are many 64-bit lightweight linux distro with very light DE (e.g. LXQt and Xfce.

Most linux distro are 64-bit OS by default, unless you specifically download and use 32-bit linux distro where 64-bit application won't run at all.

The very reason would be a cpu without 64bit support, such as the Pentium M or the atom 270 in an old laptop.

Obviously the appimage is useless, but getting it to run from source should work as long as the proper python is installed.


Title: Re: Is there a current Electrum wallet download for 32 Bit systems
Post by: Juli3344 on March 06, 2020, 01:57:01 PM
The previous comments here seem to show that appimage is not executable on my system. So I tried python 3 again.

download:
https://bitcointalk.org/home/julius/Bilder/Bildschirmfoto vom 2020-03-05 16-31-38.png
> no problem

The attempt to start Electrum failed again.
https://bitcointalk.org/home/julius/Bilder/Bildschirmfoto vom 2020-03-05 16-29-25.png


Title: Re: Is there a current Electrum wallet download for 32 Bit systems
Post by: Juli3344 on March 06, 2020, 02:03:38 PM
... sorry! How (exactly) can I insert screenshoots?


Title: Re: Is there a current Electrum wallet download for 32 Bit systems
Post by: Juli3344 on March 06, 2020, 02:13:20 PM


The attempt to start Electrum failed again.

julius@julius-HP-Compaq-6730b-KU489ET-ABD ~ $ sudo python3 ~/Electrum-3.3.8/run_electrum
[sudo] Passwort für julius:
  File "/home/julius/Electrum-3.3.8/run_electrum", line 67
    sys.exit(f"Error: {str(e)}. Try 'sudo python3 -m pip install <module-name>'")
                                                                               ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax


Title: Re: Is there a current Electrum wallet download for 32 Bit systems
Post by: Juli3344 on March 07, 2020, 08:59:24 AM
The attempt to start Electrum failed again.

Is there someone who has an idea where I have to look?

julius@julius-HP-Compaq-6730b-KU489ET-ABD ~ $ sudo python3 ~/Electrum-3.3.8/run_electrum
[sudo] Passwort für julius:
 File "/home/julius/Electrum-3.3.8/run_electrum", line 67
    sys.exit(f"Error: {str(e)}. Try 'sudo python3 -m pip install <module-name>'")

SyntaxError: invalid syntax



The latest version of python3 appears to be current.

julius@julius-HP-Compaq-6730b-KU489ET-ABD ~ $  apt policy python3
python3:
  Installiert:           3.5.1-3
  Installationskandidat: 3.5.1-3
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 3.5.1-3 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
julius@julius-HP-Compaq-6730b-KU489ET-ABD ~ $


Title: Re: Is there a current Electrum wallet download for 32 Bit systems
Post by: joniboini on March 07, 2020, 09:50:44 AM
Seems like python detects that line of code has a syntax error.

You need python 3.6.1 at a minimum[1]. Have you tried following the installation steps at https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum, including the python installation part?

How did you install/download it? Try to upload a screenshot to imgur and then send the link here.

[1] https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/run_electrum


Title: Re: Is there a current Electrum wallet download for 32 Bit systems
Post by: Jarmo van de Seijp on March 08, 2020, 07:26:04 AM
Yes, just make sure your Python is up-to-date.
I think you are currently running an old version - I tried it myself, not running into any issues on a 32 bit distro.