Title: Electrum won't start ("Unknown GUI: whatever" error message) Post by: guarriman on March 18, 2013, 09:34:46 PM Hi.
Using Ubuntu 11.10, I've just installed Electrum: []# sudo apt-get install python-qt4 python-pip []# sudo pip install http://download.electrum.org/download/Electrum-1.7.tar.gz#md5=4580c7ab656174a20334062b7fc1201f But when trying to execute the program: []# electrum I get this error message: Error: Unknown GUI: classic I tried with other GUIs: []# electrum -g lite Error: Unknown GUI: lite []# electrum -g gtk Error: Unknown GUI: gtk []# electrum -g text Error: Unknown GUI: text What am I doing wrong? Thank you very much. Title: Re: Electrum won't start ("Unknown GUI: whatever" error message) Post by: ThomasV on March 18, 2013, 09:44:47 PM try this:
Code: sudo pip install http://download.electrum.org/download/Electrum-1.7.tar.gz#md5=4580c7ab656174a20334062b7fc1201f --upgrade Title: Re: Electrum won't start ("Unknown GUI: whatever" error message) Post by: guarriman on March 18, 2013, 10:31:04 PM Thank you very much. Finally I downloaded the source code and installed with Python
[]# sudo python setup.py install |