Hardware :- Acer Aspire 7740G laptop.         OS :- Ubuntu 19.04


Intention here is to have a fresh installation of Electrum on my laptop.
I cleared ALL references to Electrum from the Home directory and did a fresh system installation of Ubuntu 19.04

I did a fresh Electrum 3.3.8 installation from the website - no errors reported.

I noticed there was no Electrum icon, no Electrum 3.3.8 sub-directory and no .electrum sub directory.

I tried "/.local/bin/electrum" in terminal and got the reply :-  No such file or directory. (The file / directories ARE present)

No Electrum

I tried a re-install and got.................................

jrm@jrm-Aspire-7740:~$ python3 -m pip install --user Electrum-3.3.8.tar.gz[fast]
Processing ./Electrum-3.3.8.tar.gz
Requirement already satisfied: aiohttp>=3.3.0 in ./.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from Electrum==3.3.8) (3.6.1)
Requirement already satisfied: aiohttp_socks in ./.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from Electrum==3.3.8) (0.2.2)
Requirement already satisfied: aiorpcx<0.19,>=0.18 in ./.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from Electrum==3.3.8) (0.18.3)
Requirement already satisfied: certifi in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from Electrum==3.3.8) (2018.8.24)
Requirement already satisfied: dnspython in ./.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from Electrum==3.3.8) (1.16.0)
Requirement already satisfied: ecdsa>=0.13 in ./.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from Electrum==3.3.8) (0.13.2)
Requirement already satisfied: jsonrpclib-pelix in ./.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from Electrum==3.3.8) (0.4.0)
Requirement already satisfied: protobuf in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from Electrum==3.3.8) (3.6.1)
Requirement already satisfied: pyaes>=0.1a1 in ./.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from Electrum==3.3.8) (1.6.1)
Requirement already satisfied: qdarkstyle<2.7 in ./.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from Electrum==3.3.8) (2.6.8)
Requirement already satisfied: qrcode in ./.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from Electrum==3.3.8) (6.1)
Requirement already satisfied: pycryptodomex in ./.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from Electrum==3.3.8) (3.9.0)
Requirement already satisfied: multidict<5.0,>=4.5 in ./.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from aiohttp>=3.3.0->Electrum==3.3.8) (4.5.2)
Requirement already satisfied: chardet<4.0,>=2.0 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from aiohttp>=3.3.0->Electrum==3.3.8) (3.0.4)
Requirement already satisfied: async-timeout<4.0,>=3.0 in ./.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from aiohttp>=3.3.0->Electrum==3.3.8) (3.0.1)
Requirement already satisfied: yarl<2.0,>=1.0 in ./.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from aiohttp>=3.3.0->Electrum==3.3.8) (1.3.0)
Requirement already satisfied: attrs>=17.3.0 in ./.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from aiohttp>=3.3.0->Electrum==3.3.8) (19.1.0)
Requirement already satisfied: six in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from qrcode->Electrum==3.3.8) (1.12.0)
Requirement already satisfied: idna>=2.0 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from yarl<2.0,>=1.0->aiohttp>=3.3.0->Electrum==3.3.8) (2.6)
Building wheels for collected packages: Electrum
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for Electrum ... done
  Stored in directory: /home/jrm/.cache/pip/wheels/25/1d/54/2e2e33fc2da3e0cc0205d592464ea2a7b13a0c5b0d9cfd03ce
Successfully built Electrum
Installing collected packages: Electrum
  Found existing installation: Electrum 3.3.8
    Uninstalling Electrum-3.3.8:
Successfully uninstalled Electrum-3.3.8
    Successfully installed Electrum-3.3.8   

Tells me it's successfully installed so I tried uninstalling Electrum...........................

jrm@jrm-Aspire-7740:~$ sudo pip3 uninstall Electrum 3.3.8
The directory '/home/jrm/.cache/pip/http' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag.
Uninstalling Electrum-3.3.8:
  Would remove:
    /home/jrm/.local/bin/electrum
    /home/jrm/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Electrum-3.3.8.dist-info/*
    /home/jrm/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/electrum/*
    /home/jrm/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/home/jrm/.local/share/applications/electrum.desktop
    /home/jrm/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/home/jrm/.local/share/icons/electrum.png
Proceed (y/n)? y
  Successfully uninstalled Electrum-3.3.8
Skipping 3.3.8 as it is not installed.                       

I found another "uninstall command line" and tried that......................................
jrm@jrm-Aspire-7740:~$ python3 /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip uninstall electrum
Skipping electrum as it is not installed.

I am stumped as to why the 'fresh' installation did not work in the first place.

Anyone see where I'm going wrong ?

Newbie here...........

Last week, I had Electrum 3.3.4 running on Ubuntu 18.04 - ran flawlessly.
I updated Ubuntu to 19.04 - Electrum appears to have 'disappeared' !
Icon has gone - typing 'electrum' into Terminal produces reply "Command not found"
The Home/Electrum directory is present and, I presume, correct.
Can anyone help show me the correct way to re-connect with the wallet.

Many thanks,

Hardware is Acer desktop running Ubuntu 18.04.2.

My old Electrum wallet would not synchronize so I did a backup, downloaded 3.3.8 and installed. Everything ran fine - no errors.
When I re-started the wallet, up came my old 2.5.4 version - obviously, still no sync.
Have tried several times - no luck.
Should I be deleting something in /.Electrum ?