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How to install and run electrum wallet with Python3 on server? – CentOS

I’m implementing bitcoin wallet for the first time, so i don’t have much knowledge on this thing.

But by following electrum official documentation , i have tried to install electrum on my macbook and it worked well, now i want to install same on my server running centOS. but installation command python3 run_electrum throws this error

qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin “xcb” in “” even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, webgl, xcb.

Aborted (core dumped)

Is there anything i’m missing here, i’m using python 3.6.4

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    Ok instead of running electrum direct i've tried to install electrum with this command

    python3 -m pip install Electrum-3.3.8.tar.gz

    then

    sudo ln -s ~/.local/bin/electrum /usr/local/bin/electrum

    after this now i am able to use electrum command on my server, i've also successfully created wallet now

    Also remember that you can run electrum from any folder you choose, following the alternative instructions from electrum:

    tar -xvf Electrum-3.3.8.tar.gz python3 Electrum-3.3.8/run_electrum


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    Also you can use AppImage from official website. Download it in some place of your server and run without installation: 

    $ chmod +x electrum-3.3.8-x86_64.AppImage  # make it executable at first
$ ./electrum-3.3.8-x86_64.AppImage daemon start
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