electrum: Can't install electrum on ubuntu 23.04
Can’t install electrum on ubuntu 23.04 using instructions from https://electrum.org/#download. Got error after “python3 -m pip install --user Electrum-4.4.0.tar.gz”:
error: externally-managed-environment
× This environment is externally managed
╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try apt install
python3-xyz, where xyz is the package you are trying to
install.
If you wish to install a non-Debian-packaged Python package,
create a virtual environment using python3 -m venv path/to/venv.
Then use path/to/venv/bin/python and path/to/venv/bin/pip. Make
sure you have python3-full installed.
If you wish to install a non-Debian packaged Python application,
it may be easiest to use pipx install xyz, which will manage a
virtual environment for you. Make sure you have pipx installed.
See /usr/share/doc/python3.11/README.venv for more information.
note: If you believe this is a mistake, please contact your Python installation or OS distribution provider. You can override this, at the risk of breaking your Python installation or OS, by passing --break-system-packages.
hint: See PEP 668 for the detailed specification.
About this issue
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- State: open
- Created a year ago
- Comments: 27 (7 by maintainers)
Commits related to this issue
- README: refer to `libsecp256k1-dev` instead of `libsecp256k1-0` We don't actually need the development headers, instead using this as a hack to be agnostic to the version scheme and pull in the lates... — committed to SomberNight/electrum by SomberNight a year ago
- README: refer to `libsecp256k1-dev` instead of `libsecp256k1-0` We don't actually need the development headers, instead using this as a hack to be agnostic to the version scheme and pull in the lates... — committed to SomberNight/electrum by SomberNight a year ago
As
pip installnow requires avenv(and installing to non isolated user python is prone to conflicting dependencies with other installs anyway) we should update the install instructions.What about:
Then symlink
/opt/electrum/bin/electrumto a location in the user’s PATH