Electrum: Electrum 3.0.2 - Cannot find python library for 'ledger'. Make sure you install it with python3

[adrelanos]

Debian stretch.

sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools python3-pyqt5 python3-pip

sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev libudev-dev python-btchip

https://download.electrum.org/3.0.2/Electrum-3.0.2.tar.gz

Getting a popup.

Cannot find python library for 'ledger'.
Make sure you install it with python3

There is no package python-ledger / python3-ledger or python3-btchip.

Please kindly advice which package is missing and to be installed.

[SomberNight]

Try

python3 -m pip install btchip-python

[DelasFlores]

Im having a similar problen attemting to update to new version of electrum
please help i can find a solution

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package python3-setuptools is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

[adrelanos]

python3 -m pip install btchip-python

That worked for me. Thanks!

What about https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=python-btchip? python-btchip is unsufficient? Debian maintainers would have to create a package python3-btchip?

[cluelessperson]

Close. package maintainers problem

[petervnv]

I wish you hadn't closed this even though it's not really an electrum problem.

I'm on ubuntu 16.04 and none of the workarounds worked for me.

I think we really need a python3-btchip package for debian/ubuntu to get electrum to work with ubuntu, but there are none available. Does anyone have a link to the code so we could try and compile it ourselves on ubuntu?

Thanks

[SomberNight]

@petervnv
Please provide some info regarding what is failing and how; because it is hard to help without that.

Try:

sudo apt-get install python3-dev cython libusb-1.0-0-dev libudev-dev
python3 -m pip install hidapi
python3 -m pip install btchip-python

Does anyone have a link to the code

https://github.com/LedgerHQ/btchip-python

[petervnv]

Thanks @SomberNight
Got it working fine with my Nano S now