Installation of Electrum Failed on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

[Generation]

I just went through the steps of installing Electrum from electrum.org (see "Installation from Python sources" at https://electrum.org/#download). Everything seemed to go smoothly until I got to the last line:

Code:

python3 -m pip install --user Electrum-4.1.5.tar.gz

After I entered this command I got the following messages as part of the response in Terminal:

Code:

WARNING: The script helpdev is installed in '/home/USERNAME/.local/bin' which is not on PATH.
Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
WARNING: The script qdarkstyle is installed in '/home/USERNAME/.local/bin' which is not on PATH.
Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
WARNING: The script qr is installed in '/home/USERNAME/.local/bin' which is not on PATH.
Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --now-warn-script-location.

(Note: I changed my username to "USERNAME" for the purposes of this forum.) The text for these messages was orange, rather than white, so I take it that means these messages were important (I'm a noob). There was more text, but that's everything that was orange. I did not notice any other orange text when I scrolled through all the text in Terminal. After these warning messages, it returned, "Successfully installed Electrum-4.1.5," etc.

I did enter every line -- sequentially -- listed under "Installation from Python sources," so I'm not sure why this installation failed. Electrum even seemed to load and work when I entered the two lines for "Run without installing."

Note that when I say the installation failed, I mean the application doesn't seem to exist in my computer's list of applications.

Help is much appreciated.

[NotATether]

All the files have actually been installed, but the Electrum program and its supporting binaries aren't on your path.

I advise you *not* to add ~/.local/bin to your path for security reasons (allows any program to make a malicious shell script impersonating a real, not-installed, program).

User installation won't display Electrum in the launcher menu unless you make a .desktop file of it like this in ~/.local/share/applications or install Electrum system-wide, or just use the AppImage.

[Generation]

All the files have actually been installed, but the Electrum program and its supporting binaries aren't on your path.

I advise you *not* to add ~/.local/bin to your path for security reasons (allows any program to make a malicious shell script impersonating a real, not-installed, program).

User installation won't display Electrum in the launcher menu unless you make a .desktop file of it like this in ~/.local/share/applications or install Electrum system-wide, or just use the AppImage.

Hi, sorry for taking so long to respond, but I got your message right away and went to work.

So, to start Electrum, it's probably easiest to just run the following command in Terminal, correct?

Code:

electrum

After I got your message, I remembered seeing that one could do that at a site called LinuxBabe, but I thought it also said Electrum should load from the app launcher, which is why I thought it didn't install properly.

It also sounds like you are advising me not to do anything with regard to the error messages, correct?

Anyway, I am now the proud owner of my first bitcoin. Thanks for helping me get there!

[Abdussamad]

you should do a system wide installation if you want fancy things like shortcuts:

Code:

sudo pip3 install /path/to/tarball.tar.gz

alternatively just manually create a shortcut to ~/.local/bin/electrum in your launcher menus/desktop.

[ranochigo]

So, to start Electrum, it's probably easiest to just run the following command in Terminal, correct?

Code:

electrum

Correct. It won't be installed in the app launcher unless you create a shortcut yourself.

If for some reason the command doesn't work, restarting your computer will have the PATHs take effect.