{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/spesmilo/electrum/issues/1789","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/spesmilo/electrum","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/spesmilo/electrum/issues/1789/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/spesmilo/electrum/issues/1789/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/spesmilo/electrum/issues/1789/events","html_url":"https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/1789","id":153435632,"number":1789,"title":"Electrum fails to start on a clean Ubuntu 16.04","user":{"login":"afk11","id":5617245,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5617245?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/afk11","html_url":"https://github.com/afk11","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afk11/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afk11/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afk11/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afk11/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afk11/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afk11/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afk11/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afk11/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afk11/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2016-05-06T11:51:44Z","updated_at":"2016-09-27T10:53:50Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Today I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04. I installed using ` sudo apt-get install python-qt4 python-pip &&  sudo pip install https://download.electrum.org/2.6.4/Electrum-2.6.4.tar.gz `, which seemed to go fine. \r\n\r\nStarting electrum gives me this error: \r\n\r\n> Traceback (most recent call last):\r\n>   File \"/usr/local/bin/electrum\", line 75, in <module>\r\n>     check_imports()\r\n>   File \"/usr/local/bin/electrum\", line 55, in check_imports\r\n>     import google.protobuf\r\n>   File \"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/protobuf-3.0.0b2.post2-py2.7.egg/google/__init__.py\", line 2, in <module>\r\n>     __import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)\r\n>   File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 2927, in <module>\r\n>     @_call_aside\r\n>   File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 2913, in _call_aside\r\n>     f(*args, **kwargs)\r\n>   File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 2952, in _initialize_master_working_set\r\n>     add_activation_listener(lambda dist: dist.activate())\r\n>   File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 956, in subscribe\r\n>     callback(dist)\r\n>   File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 2952, in <lambda>\r\n>     add_activation_listener(lambda dist: dist.activate())\r\n>   File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 2513, in activate\r\n>     for pkg in self._get_metadata('namespace_packages.txt'):\r\n>   File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 2503, in _get_metadata\r\n>     for line in self.get_metadata_lines(name):\r\n>   File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 1477, in get_metadata_lines\r\n>     return yield_lines(self.get_metadata(name))\r\n>   File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 1469, in get_metadata\r\n>     return self._get(self._fn(self.egg_info, name))\r\n>   File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 1580, in _get\r\n>     with open(path, 'rb') as stream:\r\n> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/protobuf-3.0.0b2.post2-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/namespace_packages.txt'\r\n> "},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/spesmilo/electrum/issues/comments/249831976","html_url":"https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/1789#issuecomment-249831976","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/spesmilo/electrum/issues/1789","id":249831976,"user":{"login":"afk11","id":5617245,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5617245?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/afk11","html_url":"https://github.com/afk11","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afk11/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afk11/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afk11/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afk11/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afk11/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afk11/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afk11/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afk11/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afk11/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-09-27T10:53:50Z","updated_at":"2016-09-27T10:53:50Z","body":"@dvomaks sudo isn't for asking nicely, it's giving software all privileges over the system.. not a solution."}}
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