How do I upgrade Electrum to the latest version?

[Sam Spade]

Forgive me, but I believe I did say in an earlier post that I ran the appimage and it executed correctly but I was unable to find a menu item to run Electrum.  Then someone suggested I run 'Electrum' from the terminal to get any error messages which I did and posted.

So, thank you for your suggestion, I did try it, do you have any further advice?

[Abdussamad]

Stop listening to the other guy. You can manually create a shortcut to run electrum. A shortcut pointing to the appimage. Lookup how to create shortcuts using your desktop environment. Gnome is it?

To remove the other shortcut i.e. the one to the non-functional electrum install do `sudo pip3 uninstall electrum`

[HCP]

... I ran the appimage and it executed correctly but I was unable to find a menu item to run Electrum.

If the appimage works, then do as Abdussamad suggested and simply continue to use that... It will save you a lot of time and mucking around trying to troubleshoot dependencies.

Now it seems that your issue is simply that you don't have a menu item for launching Electrum... or, more correctly, the menu item you do have doesn't work... Again, Abdussamad's suggestion is the one to follow. Uninstall the non-working Electrum... and then create a new shortcut for the AppImage.