Electrum - Bitcoin client for the common users (friendly and instant)

[stepkrav]

Then the only logical conclusion is that the "sudo python setup.py install" command failed.

Code:

# python setup.py install
Including all files
[b]/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'install_requires'
  warnings.warn(msg)[/b]
running install
running build
running build_py
running build_scripts
running install_lib
running install_scripts
changing mode of /usr/local/bin/electrum to 755
running install_data
running install_egg_info
Removing /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Electrum-1.5.1.egg-info
Writing /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Electrum-1.5.1.egg-info

[Tachikoma]

Is /usr/local/bin/electrum a symlink and if so, where does it link to?

Did you install the initial version via git as well or via pip?

[stepkrav]

Is /usr/local/bin/electrum a symlink and if so, where does it link to?

Did you install the initial version via git as well or via pip?

no it's not a link. Should i link it to the electrum that i execute from the source directory?
Initial version was installed via git as well.

[ThomasV]

do this to check if you installed it correctly:

Code:

~> python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Aug  1 2012, 05:14:39) 
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import electrum
>>> electrum.version.ELECTRUM_VERSION

[stepkrav]

Code:

python
Python 2.7.3rc2 (default, Apr 22 2012, 22:30:17) 
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import electrum
>>> electrum.version.ELECTRUM_VERSION
'1.5.1'

[ThomasV]

Code:

python
Python 2.7.3rc2 (default, Apr 22 2012, 22:30:17) 
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import electrum
>>> electrum.version.ELECTRUM_VERSION
'1.5.1'

do you happen to be launching electrum from a directory where a subdirectory named 'lib' is present?

[stepkrav]

Sorry to bother you guys with all this, i'm just missing something probably. Anyway :

if i change to the directory ~/electrum that was created when i git cloned, and i give "./electrum" its working fine. In this directory there indeed a subdir called "lib".

My problem is that electrum doesnt seem to be correctly installed system wide. That is if i execute simply the command electrum in a shell or if i try the GUI icon of electrum in Gnome3.

Tachikoma asked me before about /usr/local/bin/electrum. So this is the output :

Code:

ls -l /usr/local/bin/electrum 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 24542 Nov 23 13:08 /usr/local/bin/electrum

[arsenische]

I love this software! It works fast and has the exact set of features I need!

Just one question: why would one want to run a public Electrum server, is there any incentive to do so?

[Tachikoma]

I love this software! It works fast and has the exact set of features I need!

Just one question: why would one want to run a public Electrum server, is there any incentive to do so?

There is no incentive except supporting Electrum.

[Pontius]

Just one question: why would one want to run a public Electrum server, is there any incentive to do so?

I'm running one just for the fun.  

[ThomasV]

I love this software! It works fast and has the exact set of features I need!

Just one question: why would one want to run a public Electrum server, is there any incentive to do so?

For the moment there is no financial incentive to do so.
But I guess this could change in the future; servers operators could charge a small fee for the service they provide.

[tnkflx]

I love this software! It works fast and has the exact set of features I need!

Just one question: why would one want to run a public Electrum server, is there any incentive to do so?

For the moment there is no financial incentive to do so.
But I guess this could change in the future; servers operators could charge a small fee for the service they provide.

Maybe a donate button in Electrum itself? And when someone donates, it will be divided between all Electrum servers?

[slush]

Maybe a donate button in Electrum itself? And when someone donates, it will be divided between all Electrum servers?

Anyone can setup as many virtual Electrum server as he wish...

[Tachikoma]

I love this software! It works fast and has the exact set of features I need!

Just one question: why would one want to run a public Electrum server, is there any incentive to do so?

For the moment there is no financial incentive to do so.
But I guess this could change in the future; servers operators could charge a small fee for the service they provide.

I think it's very hard to offer something on a paid server that a non-paid server can't do. There has to be an incentive to pay for the server, something that differs from the free servers.

[molecular]

Just one question: why would one want to run a public Electrum server, is there any incentive to do so?

I'm running one just for the fun.  

Are you recording IP-Address to Public Seed mapping information? It might be possible to monetize such info at some point in time. It's an issue.

[Pontius]

Are you recording IP-Address to Public Seed mapping information? It might be possible to monetize such info at some point in time. It's an issue.

No, I don't. I'm not even keeping the logs for longer then a day (lograte just throws them away at midnight).

[tnkflx]

Maybe a donate button in Electrum itself? And when someone donates, it will be divided between all Electrum servers?

Anyone can setup as many virtual Electrum server as he wish...

Didn't even think of that...  Well, donate button for the server you're connected to then

[arsenische]

Maybe a donate button in Electrum itself? And when someone donates, it will be divided between all Electrum servers?

Anyone can setup as many virtual Electrum server as he wish...

Didn't even think of that...  Well, donate button for the server you're connected to then

how do IRC servers make for living?

[BkkCoins]

I would think this could be built into the client as an option. eg. it has an option for default transaction fee now but this could be split into two items or simply have the value split in half.

Then when the client builds a "send" transaction it adds an output for the server's btc address for the fee portion. This seems to me like the most transparent yet configurable way to allow a small stream of fees to support the server handling transactions. It's not even much code to do that. But it would perhaps require that servers have an api call that provides the correct address as parsing it out of the Wall text seems like a poor idea.

[slush]

Then when the client builds a "send" transaction it adds an output for the server's btc address for the fee portion. This seems to me like the most transparent yet configurable way to allow a small stream of fees to support the server handling transactions. It's not even much code to do that. But it would perhaps require that servers have an api call that provides the correct address as parsing it out of the Wall text seems like a poor idea.

I have been thinking about this as well. However this is becoming privacy issue...