installed electrum on mint using terminal but just wont load from start menu?

[web435]

Hi ive just completed the cmd line install of electrum on Linux Mint, Ive checked the signature. The link has appeared in the menu system. I click on it, the thinking wheel spins for a bit and then just stops spinning and nothing.

[ABCbits]

Your post is rather vague. If you can share some detail (such as how exactly you installed Electrum), i and other member may able to give more detailed reply. For starter, i would recommend you to try open Electrum from terminal and see whether it can start successfully or at least show any error message.

[web435]

Your post is rather vague. If you can share some detail (such as how exactly you installed Electrum), i and other member may able to give more detailed reply. For starter, i would recommend you to try open Electrum from terminal and see whether it can start successfully or at least show any error message.

i entered:
>python3 -m pip install --user Electrum
to install it

ok i tried
>./electrum
and got
"traceback
...some file's line numbers
modulenotfounderror no module named logging handlers...."

[nc50lc]

i entered:
>python3 -m pip install --user Electrum
to install it

That skipped all the steps to install Electrum's dependencies.

Follow the instructions provided in Electrum's download page: electrum.org/#download (scroll-down to "Installation from Python sources")
But heads-up; AFAIK, Linux Mint has issues with the last "Install with PIP" step.
You can follow the instructions from "Install dependencies" to "Run without installing" part without issues though.
Since it'll not be installed, you can only use: python3 Electrum-4.5.8/run_electrum to launch Electrum. (the version should match the downloaded package)

You could try the last step to test if the mentioned issue is fixed though.

[ABCbits]

Your post is rather vague. If you can share some detail (such as how exactly you installed Electrum), i and other member may able to give more detailed reply. For starter, i would recommend you to try open Electrum from terminal and see whether it can start successfully or at least show any error message.

i entered:
>python3 -m pip install --user Electrum
to install it

Installing from source code can be tricky. Have you tried download and run Electrum AppImage instead?

ok i tried
>./electrum
and got
"traceback
...some file's line numbers
modulenotfounderror no module named logging handlers...."

Unfortunately part of error message you showed is rather vague. logging.handlers is part of Python built-in/default library.