Problems building Electrum wallet on openSuse (Tumbleweed) Linux

[dec1]

The instructions for linux only seem to apply to debian based systems. On my OpenSuse (Tumblweed) machine here's what I tried:

• Installed python3-qt4-devel - PyQt - devel part of python bindings for Qt 4 (This package provides /usr/bin/pyrcc4)

• Ran pyrcc4 icons.qrc -o gui/qt/icons_rc.py

• Installed protobuf-devel - Header files, libraries and development documentation for protobuf (This package provides /usr/bin/protoc)

• Ran protoc --proto_path=lib/ --python_out=lib/ lib/paymentrequest.proto output: [libprotobuf WARNING google/protobuf/compiler/parser.cc:546] No syntax specified for the proto file: paymentrequest.proto. Please use 'syntax = "proto2";' or 'syntax = "proto3";' to specify a syntax version. (Defaulted to proto2 syntax.)

• Ran ./electrum-nebl output: error: No module named dns. Try 'sudo pip install <module-name>'

• Ran sudo pip3 install dns output: Collecting dns Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement dns (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for dns

[nebliodev]

https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/1780 seems to indicate some systems may need to install dnspython instead.

This is untested.

[dec1]

This doesn't help.

> sudo pip3 install dnspython
Requirement already satisfied: dnspython in /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages

> sudo pip3 install dns
Collecting dns
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement dns (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for dns

I also additionally installed the following via yast, but to no further avail (based on the comment by popey at spesmilo/electrum#1780

python3-dnspython python3-qrcode python3-pbkdf2 python3-protobuf python3-jsonrpclib-pelix

python-slowaes

Could it be a problem with the code snapshot? See https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/3711

[dec1]

Also the README.rst file in the source zip/tar.gz says that after installing the qt dependencies

If you downloaded the official package (tar.gz), you can run Electrum from its root directory, without installing it on your system; all the python dependencies are included in the 'packages' directory. To run Electrum from its root directory, just do::

./electrum-nebl

So most of the above should be unnecessary anyways.

So either the readme is misleading or the instructions on the website