Macos install failing

I am probably doing it wrong but when I run: pip install cryptoadvance.specter

I get:

ERROR: No matching distribution found for cryptoadvance.specter

Any advice for getting it working on mac?

[ben-kaufman]

Yes I’m on Catalina, though using python 3.7.3. Another possible thing might be failed installation/ run without sudo. I don’t think it should be the issue, but worth trying out.

Anyway, another option I think should work is running from source like this:

git clone https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop.git
cd specter-desktop
virtualenv --python=python3 .env
source .env/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
pip3 install -e .
python3 -m cryptoadvance.specter server

See here: https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/blob/master/DEVELOPMENT.md

[ben-kaufman]

Re the installation itself, AFAIK Specter works only with python 3.6 and above. I thought this was in the README but I now see it isn’t, so will add it there.

Regarding running, this sounds like the pip3 isn’t installed properly with python3. Try running either:

python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade pip

Or if that doesn’t help.

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python3 get-pip.py --force-reinstall

And retry to install and run Specter.