11 January 2019
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Does Electrum 2.6.4 work for anybody ?  I've got ubuntu 14.04 on some of my desktops and ubuntu 16.04 on some others.  18.04 won't install on anything here, perhaps if it has been maldesigned to dislike anything other than the newest hardware.  Typing 'electrum' in ubuntu software centre found an installer for electrum (with no indication of which version), so I did that, and some time later started it from its icon.  Turns out that Ubuntu 16.04 installed Electrum 2.6.4 which is how I found this old thread.  Does that even work this year?, or will I be waiting forever with the wallet 'Synchronising' ?  If it has not moved in an hour then I'm uninstalling it. 

By the way, the latest python3 electrum versions did not install on ubuntu 14.04 linux from 2014, and it took a day of circular loops of installing various dependency packages and dependencies of dependencies and following helpfully misexplained instructions to find that out.