Electrum 'disappeared' after Ubuntu update.

[semperlinux]

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,

[nc50lc]

Have you written your SEED (random 12-words) to a piece of paper as instructed during the wallet creation process?
If yes, you can just restore it to a newly installed Electrum using the options:
Standard wallet->i already have a seed
And your previous funds will be displayed after a few minutes.

You can also check your electrum directory for a wallet folder where your wallet file was stored.
it has a default name of default_wallet or different if you've given it a different name.
If that's the case, it will be loaded once you've reinstalled Electrum.

[TryNinja]

See if Electrum exists in /usr/local/bin/electrum

If it does, you can create an Electrum.desktop file which contains

Code:

 [Desktop Entry]
Name=Electrum
Exec=/usr/local/bin/electrum
Icon=/opt/electrum/electrum-icon.png
Type=Application

In the /usr/share/applications/ folder.

And them give it permissions to be executed

Code:

chmod +x /usr/share/applications/Electrum.desktop

Now try running it.

[semperlinux]

Thank you for your replies.

nc50lc - I have the wallet re-seed key. I re-installed Electrum - installation seemed to run perfectly but no icon when complete. Using terminal, the reply to command 'electrum' was once again, command not found !
TryNinja - Electrum is NOT present in usr/local/bin/ - the directory is actually empty.

Further help stili needed - thank you !

[TryNinja]

How are you re-installing it?

Can you try uninstalling it with:

Code:

sudo pip3 uninstall electrum

And then installing it again with:

Code:

sudo pip3 install https://download.electrum.org/3.3.8/Electrum-3.3.8.tar.gz

(If you didn't try this exact way yet)

[nc50lc]

nc50lc - I have the wallet re-seed key. I re-installed Electrum - installation seemed to run perfectly but no icon when complete. Using terminal, the reply to command 'electrum' was once again, command not found !

I've checked your previous thread; you had a problem executing electrum using "electrum" command.
This looks the same as your previous issue, so try Abdussamad's suggestion from before:

try the following command:

Code:

~/.local/bin/electrum 

~/.local/bin/run_electrum #only if the above one fails

if the above command works create a shortcut to that executable file on your desktop. ~ = home directory here.

Looks like the one that's deleted was just the shortcut that you've created from that command.

[TryNinja]

Looks like the one that was deleted was just the shortcut that you've created from that command.

@OP: try the above and if any of the commands work, do the same as I said above to create the shortcut, but with the right command on "exec".

If it does, you can create an Electrum.desktop file which contains

Code:

 [Desktop Entry]
Name=Electrum
Exec=COMMAND_HERE
Icon=/opt/electrum/electrum-icon.png
Type=Application

In the /usr/share/applications/ folder.

And them give it permissions to be executed

Code:

chmod +x /usr/share/applications/Electrum.desktop

[semperlinux]

~/.local/bin/electrum

That was the answer - I just wasn't locating the executable.

Many thanks to you all for the assistance.