Are you talking about the python compatibility issues? There's outdated python repos on a lot of Linux distros and I tried installing it from source but it just kept failing for random reasons so if that's the sane issue as you then I suggest you wait (wasabi was previously suggested but afaik armory needs bitcoin core).

Just tested it with Debian stable (testing has newer versions), and it seems it really only has python 3.5.3 in its repositories while electrum needs python 3.6.

However, it can be installed this way (python 3.6.3; just tested on debian stable):

You will have python3 (3.5.3) and python3.6 installed.

Then you'll need to install pyqt5 via:

Afterwards electrum can be run using:

inside of the electrum directory.


Of course this also works with newer versions of python.