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Quote from: Pochi Spiccioli on October 29, 2019, 04:19:00 AM

Quote from: Abdussamad on October 28, 2019, 03:07:57 PM

an official appimage is available on electrum.org. why not use that instead?

It is what I use, but if the snap package was updated it would be more convenient.

If you install Electrum from the source code, you only need to run 2 lines & it's more convenient than open .AppImage every time you run Electrum.
It's not as convenient as using snap package though.

Example :

Code:

wget https://download.electrum.org/3.3.8/Electrum-3.3.8.tar.gz
python3 -m pip install --user Electrum-3.3.8.tar.gz[fast]

Pochi Spiccioli

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Quote from: ABCbits on October 29, 2019, 01:08:07 PM

Quote from: Pochi Spiccioli on October 29, 2019, 04:19:00 AM

Quote from: Abdussamad on October 28, 2019, 03:07:57 PM

an official appimage is available on electrum.org. why not use that instead?

It is what I use, but if the snap package was updated it would be more convenient.

If you install Electrum from the source code, you only need to run 2 lines & it's more convenient than open .AppImage every time you run Electrum.
It's not as convenient as using snap package though.

Example :

Code:

wget https://download.electrum.org/3.3.8/Electrum-3.3.8.tar.gz
python3 -m pip install --user Electrum-3.3.8.tar.gz[fast]

I tried to install it from source code, but unfortunately it gave me some problems.

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Quote from: Pochi Spiccioli on October 29, 2019, 04:19:00 AM

It is what I use, but if the snap package was updated it would be more convenient.

I always prefer to update it manually, so that way I know what I’m downloading. Updates aren’t that frequently to be considered a bothersome (at least for me).

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Quote from: Abdussamad on October 28, 2019, 03:07:57 PM

an official appimage is available on electrum.org. why not use that instead?

It is what I use, but if the snap package was updated it would be more convenient.

Abdussamad

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an official appimage is available on electrum.org. why not use that instead?

Pochi Spiccioli

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I hope that things will change as soon as possible: we all know how much easier it could be to install and keep update Electrum if it were also released as a snap package.
I thank everyone for the clarifications.

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Quote from: Pochi Spiccioli on October 26, 2019, 09:41:25 AM

Why is the Linux snap version of Electrum stopping at 2.6.4 (while at the time of writing the current version is 3.3. Cool

? For the user, the snap package version is much simpler and faster to be installed and easily updatable on Linux systems compared to the AppImage or Python sources versions present on the official site.

I don't think that wallet will work but there is no link to download the wallet for on snapcraft the official website.
also, think that the wallet in the store was published by someone and not from the developers of the wallet, in general, you can read more here ---> Electrum wallet It’s totally outdated, broken, insecure version.

Ignore any wallet that is not linked to https://electrum.org/#download.

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Yeah, I don't know why but it is heavily outdated (last update on 21 September 2016) - and that's a huge security issue considering that there are many vulnerabilities < 3.3.

I guess that's because they stopped using it after changing to AppImage. Maybe we should tell this to the dev? I saw many people complaining about this on a few forums/subreddits, but nothing was ever done.

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Why is the Linux snap version of Electrum stopping at 2.6.4 (while at the time of writing the current version is 3.3.8)? For the user, the snap package version is much simpler and faster to be installed and easily updatable on Linux systems compared to the AppImage or Python sources versions present on the official site.

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