Electrum wallet problem

#1

Hi,

I am trying to use the electrum ltc wallet on linux but it gives an error: “Warning: package scrypt not available; synchronization could be very slow” The wallet is so slow that its not possible to use it.

However, as far as I can see I have installed all necessary packages that are mentioned in the readme file.

I also tried to use the app image instead but it says “unknown file type” when trying to launch it. The btc electrum wallet + app image works fine.

Any idea how to solve it? Thank you.

#2

Uhm. Thinking maybe you should try a package update and check you have all dependencies. Do you have a package manager in your distro? Like synaptic?

Would need to know more, like your distro, and how you ‘installed’ as it were the electrum ltc wallet.

Got a release from github? Curl? An ‘app store’ within your distro? Missing some steps here.

You obviously are doing something right as the btc electrum wallet works.

#3

What do you mean by “package update”? My system is up to date and I have also run

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

I am using Linux Mint 20 “Ulyana” - Cinnamon (64-bit), yes I have synaptic.
The electrum ltc files I have downloaded from electrum-ltc dot org (I cant put links as new user) - I verified the signatures.

Edit: It seems I fixed it by doing the following:

sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools python3-pyqt5 python3-pip python3-dev libssl-dev build-essential

pip3 install scrypt

(the app image still doesnt work though)

#4

Hurray for the fix!

Seems maybe your distro ran on python 2 until you apt-get 3… never heard of this errror before, so learning here as well.

AppImage software works for me about 50% of the time. Prefer apt and building from source. Many different methods, same(ish) result

#5

‘I verified the signatures’

Bravo, really, can’t tell you how many times I have seen people skip this step

#6

By package management i mean looking into the packages (core and dependencies) of the electrum-ltc

To do this synaptic or another package manager is needed, sudo apt-get update does not always fix things such as broken dependencies or old repository sources.

More control with synaptic, also being a GUI helps. Here is an article you may enjoy on the subject

Understanding Packages, Repository and Package Manager in linux | The Coders Blog