Electrum: ImportError: No module named socks. PySocks is installed though.

Created on 3 Jun 2017 · 7Comments · Source: spesmilo/electrum

Electrum no longer seems to work. I'm running the Fedora 26 beta, though I get most my python packages with pip.
It gives this output...

$ electrum 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/electrum", line 98, in <module>
    from electrum import bitcoin, network
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/electrum/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from network import Network, pick_random_server
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/electrum/network.py", line 35, in <module>
    import socks

This is despite PySocks being installed, I can't make much sense of the problem. It might be an issue with Python itself, but I have doubts about that. Other Python software on my system is working fine.

$ sudo pip2 install https://download.electrum.org/2.8.3/Electrum-2.8.3.tar.gz

WARNING: Running pip install with root privileges is generally not a good idea. Try `pip2 install --user` instead.                                                                                                              
Collecting https://download.electrum.org/2.8.3/Electrum-2.8.3.tar.gz
  Downloading https://download.electrum.org/2.8.3/Electrum-2.8.3.tar.gz (2.3MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 2.3MB 241kB/s 
Requirement already satisfied: pyaes in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from Electrum==2.8.3)
Requirement already satisfied: ecdsa>=0.9 in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from Electrum==2.8.3)
Requirement already satisfied: pbkdf2 in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from Electrum==2.8.3)
Requirement already satisfied: requests in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from Electrum==2.8.3)
Requirement already satisfied: qrcode in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from Electrum==2.8.3)
Requirement already satisfied: protobuf in /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages (from Electrum==2.8.3)
Requirement already satisfied: dnspython in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from Electrum==2.8.3)
Requirement already satisfied: jsonrpclib in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from Electrum==2.8.3)
Requirement already satisfied: PySocks>=1.6.6 in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from Electrum==2.8.3)
Requirement already satisfied: chardet<3.1.0,>=3.0.2 in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from requests->Electrum==2.8.3)
Requirement already satisfied: certifi>=2017.4.17 in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from requests->Electrum==2.8.3)
Requirement already satisfied: idna<2.6,>=2.5 in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from requests->Electrum==2.8.3)
Requirement already satisfied: urllib3<1.22,>=1.21.1 in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from requests->Electrum==2.8.3)
Requirement already satisfied: six in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from qrcode->Electrum==2.8.3)
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from protobuf->Electrum==2.8.3)
Requirement already satisfied: appdirs>=1.4.0 in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from setuptools->protobuf->Electrum==2.8.3)
Requirement already satisfied: packaging>=16.8 in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from setuptools->protobuf->Electrum==2.8.3)
Requirement already satisfied: pyparsing in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from packaging>=16.8->setuptools->protobuf->Electrum==2.8.3)
Installing collected packages: Electrum
  Found existing installation: Electrum 2.8.2
    Uninstalling Electrum-2.8.2:
      Successfully uninstalled Electrum-2.8.2
  Running setup.py install for Electrum ... done
Successfully installed Electrum-2.8.3

It clearly installs everything fine, but can't seem to import socks.

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