Installing Electron Cash

Installing on Linux

Linux users will need to run Electron Cash directly from the source code.

  1. You will need Python version 3.4.0 or higher. Check your python version with python3 --version.
  2. Install the dependencies:
  • sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools
  • sudo pip3 install PyQt5
  1. You should have already downloaded and verified a gzipped tar of the source. The file will be named something like ElectronCash-3.1.2.tar.gz.
  2. Extract the files using tar -xvzf ElectronCash-3.1.2.tar.gz and cd into the directory.
  3. Install using sudo python3 setup.py install
  4. You can now run Electron Cash using ./electron-cash

Some common issues are:

  • No local packages or working download links found for pyqt5 - you will need to install PyQt5 before installing Electron Cash. See step 2 above.