I tried to install v 2.7.9 on Linux Mint 18 and it did not work. This is the output I got:
Collecting
https://download.electrum.org/2.7.9/Electrum-2.7.9.tar.gz Downloading
https://download.electrum.org/2.7.9/Electrum-2.7.9.tar.gz (2.0MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 2.0MB 607kB/s
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 209, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 317, in run
requirement_set.prepare_files(finder)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 360, in prepare_files
ignore_dependencies=self.ignore_dependencies))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 600, in _prepare_file
req_to_install.check_if_exists()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 1011, in check_if_exists
self.req.project_name
AttributeError: 'Requirement' object has no attribute 'project_name'
You are using pip version 8.1.1, however version 8.1.2 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
Any idea on how to fix it?
edit: never mind. It worked by "Installation from Python sources"