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I'm running currently Bitcoin Core v23 on RHEL 8 (has a few hours left before fully sync'd).

I would like to install Electrum Personal Server (or S or X?) on that same server (RHEL) then link to Sparrow Wallet (on windows 10 but same network) using Ledger Nano S (already set up). 

I cant seem to find install instructions for Electrum for RHEL.  All of the docs i found were for Ubuntu, Rpi, Debian, etc.  I'm hopeful that someone has done this here and can point me in the right direction.  Thanks!

Rhel 8 when searching on Google it is pointing out that this OS is Linux which is why they are giving you Ubuntu or RPI guide on how to install it.

Actually, I never heard of this OS RHEL 8 have you tried all docs that you found recently for Ubuntu OS?

Why not try it first or check this link below

- https://github.com/spesmilo/electrumx/blob/master/docs/HOWTO.rst

Or if you are looking for automated ElectrumX installer script you can check this one

- https://github.com/bauerj/electrumx-installer

I appreciate the response.  The OS RHEL is Redhat Enterprise Linux.  the Rpi or Debian/ Obuntu installs wont work directly without changing commands etc.  Im not that skilled at those OS to be able to do that so was hoping someone did and i could follow.  Otherwise im coming up short searching for something useable- unless of course im missing something.

Sparrow Wallet can be directly connected with Bitcoin Core[1]. It's using BWT which I think is almost the same as Electrum Personal Server. Is there any other reason why you want to install those Electrum servers?

[1] https://sparrowwallet.com/docs/connect-node.html

I just checked EPS guide for Debian/Ubuntu[1] and it should be applicable for RHEL 8. There's no step which heavily depends on OS's package manager (such as apt) or init system (such as systemd). RHEL 8 seems to be most recent version and already include Python 3.6 by default[2]. But personally i'd rather setup ElectrumX[3] server if you have multiple Electrum wallets since EPS require you to add master public key manually.

[1] https://github.com/chris-belcher/electrum-personal-server#quick-start-on-a-debianubuntu-machine-with-a-running-bitcoin-full-node (https://github.com/chris-belcher/electrum-personal-server#quick-start-on-a-debianubuntu-machine-with-a-running-bitcoin-full-node)
[2] https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/11/14/python-in-rhel-8-3 (https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/11/14/python-in-rhel-8-3)
[3] https://github.com/spesmilo/electrumx (https://github.com/spesmilo/electrumx)

That's only if the software runs on the same machine. But he said his Bitcoin Core install is on a server and I doubt he'll connect his hardware wallet to his server when he needs to do a transaction. That's where Electrum servers come in.

I'd recommend electrs for low resource utilization and good performance: https://github.com/romanz/electrs
My own install guide for it (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5366854.msg58233714#msg58233714) is based on openSUSE (zypper package manager), but it's basically the same for other Linux distributions.

They also have their own install guide for Ubuntu with apt: https://github.com/romanz/electrs/blob/master/doc/install.md

Since OP have the node and PC on the same network, he can use the remote setup setting(https://sparrowwallet.com/docs/connect-node.html#remote-setup).

+me

electrs works really good, installation is not difficult, it synchronizes quite fast and uses reasonable amount of disk space.