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Title: Installation of Electrum Failed on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Post by: Generation on July 21, 2021, 06:20:36 PM I just went through the steps of installing Electrum from electrum.org (see "Installation from Python sources" at https://electrum.org/#download). Everything seemed to go smoothly until I got to the last line:
Code: python3 -m pip install --user Electrum-4.1.5.tar.gz After I entered this command I got the following messages as part of the response in Terminal: Code: WARNING: The script helpdev is installed in '/home/USERNAME/.local/bin' which is not on PATH. (Note: I changed my username to "USERNAME" for the purposes of this forum.) The text for these messages was orange, rather than white, so I take it that means these messages were important (I'm a noob). There was more text, but that's everything that was orange. I did not notice any other orange text when I scrolled through all the text in Terminal. After these warning messages, it returned, "Successfully installed Electrum-4.1.5," etc. I did enter every line -- sequentially -- listed under "Installation from Python sources," so I'm not sure why this installation failed. Electrum even seemed to load and work when I entered the two lines for "Run without installing." Note that when I say the installation failed, I mean the application doesn't seem to exist in my computer's list of applications. Help is much appreciated. Title: Re: Installation of Electrum Failed on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Post by: NotATether on July 21, 2021, 06:55:41 PM All the files have actually been installed, but the Electrum program and its supporting binaries aren't on your path.
I advise you *not* to add ~/.local/bin to your path for security reasons (allows any program to make a malicious shell script impersonating a real, not-installed, program). User installation won't display Electrum in the launcher menu unless you make a .desktop file of it like this (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5104831.msg55255052#msg55255052) in ~/.local/share/applications or install Electrum system-wide, or just use the AppImage. Title: Re: Installation of Electrum Failed on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Post by: Generation on July 21, 2021, 10:08:13 PM All the files have actually been installed, but the Electrum program and its supporting binaries aren't on your path. I advise you *not* to add ~/.local/bin to your path for security reasons (allows any program to make a malicious shell script impersonating a real, not-installed, program). User installation won't display Electrum in the launcher menu unless you make a .desktop file of it like this (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5104831.msg55255052#msg55255052) in ~/.local/share/applications or install Electrum system-wide, or just use the AppImage. Hi, sorry for taking so long to respond, but I got your message right away and went to work. So, to start Electrum, it's probably easiest to just run the following command in Terminal, correct? Code: electrum After I got your message, I remembered seeing that one could do that at a site called LinuxBabe (https://www.linuxbabe.com/desktop-linux/how-to-install-use-electrum-bitcoin-wallet-ubuntu), but I thought it also said Electrum should load from the app launcher, which is why I thought it didn't install properly. It also sounds like you are advising me not to do anything with regard to the error messages, correct? Anyway, I am now the proud owner of my first bitcoin. Thanks for helping me get there! Title: Re: Installation of Electrum Failed on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Post by: Abdussamad on July 22, 2021, 01:08:10 AM you should do a system wide installation if you want fancy things like shortcuts:
Code: sudo pip3 install /path/to/tarball.tar.gz alternatively just manually create a shortcut to ~/.local/bin/electrum in your launcher menus/desktop. Title: Re: Installation of Electrum Failed on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Post by: ranochigo on July 22, 2021, 03:32:00 AM So, to start Electrum, it's probably easiest to just run the following command in Terminal, correct? Correct. It won't be installed in the app launcher unless you create a shortcut yourself.Code: electrum If for some reason the command doesn't work, restarting your computer will have the PATHs take effect. |