How do I set up Electrum Tor Wallet (for XVG) right?

Question

I followed a step-by-step tutorial to set up Electrum (Tor) for Ubuntu 16.04. After

sudo pip install pyasn1 pyasn1-modules pbkdf2 tlslite qrcode

I ignored the first orange notification,

that the directory is not owned by current user… etc

but tried to upgrade pip version from 8.1.1 to 9.0.1 with the command:

pip install –upgrade pip

After upgrading, it showed still the 8.1.1 version. After a second try (same command), it said it s already up to date.

So I finished the tutorial and tried to run

cd /home/username/electrum-xvg-tor
./electrum-xvg

but instead of executing, it said:

bash: ./electrum-xvg: Keine Berechtigung (no authorization)

Any suggestions, what I missed? How can I get the wallet running?

$ pip --version
pip 8.1.1 from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (python 2.7)

$ apt-cache policy python-pip
python-pip:
  Installiert:           8.1.1-2ubuntu0.4
  Installationskandidat: 8.1.1-2ubuntu0.4
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 8.1.1-2ubuntu0.4 500
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     8.1.1-2 500
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe i386 Packages

$ ls -l /home/username/electrum-xvg-tor/electrum-xvg

-rw-rw-r-- 1 username username 14345 Jan 14 16:19 /home/username/electrum-xvg-tor/electrum-xvg

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 15 '18 at 13:03

Looks like there's a bug in the source code repository: the executable file appearing in the README document isn't flagged as executable (see my bug report).

You can change its access mode to make it executable yourself:

chmod +x electrum-xvg

Then you can execute it as documented:

./electrum-xvg

How do I set up Electrum Tor Wallet (for XVG) right?

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