Python app not running on F42

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Latest Electrum installed with python as user not working.
Reinstalled, also remove and reinstall trouble library. No success running Electrum. On my fedora 41 system running with no problem. 42 was upgraded from 41 not a clean install.
Python versions not changed between 41 and 42, so did not expected these errors.

user991@fedora:~$ electrum
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user991/.local/bin/electrum", line 94, in <module>
    from electrum.logging import get_logger, configure_logging  # import logging submodule first
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/user991/.local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/electrum/__init__.py", line 20, in <module>
    from .wallet import Wallet
  File "/home/user991/.local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/electrum/wallet.py", line 53, in <module>
    from .bip32 import BIP32Node, convert_bip32_intpath_to_strpath, convert_bip32_strpath_to_intpath
  File "/home/user991/.local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/electrum/bip32.py", line 11, in <module>
    from . import constants
  File "/home/user991/.local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/electrum/constants.py", line 31, in <module>
    from . import bitcoin
  File "/home/user991/.local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/electrum/bitcoin.py", line 35, in <module>
    from . import ecc
  File "/home/user991/.local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/electrum/ecc.py", line 39, in <module>
    from .ecc_fast import _libsecp256k1, SECP256K1_EC_UNCOMPRESSED
  File "/home/user991/.local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/electrum/ecc_fast.py", line 151, in <module>
    raise ImportError("Failed to load libsecp256k1")
ImportError: Failed to load libsecp256k1
  1.02 | E | ecc_fast | libsecp256k1 library failed to load. exceptions: [OSError('/home/user991/.local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/electrum/libsecp256k1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'), OSError('/home/user991/.local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/electrum/libsecp256k1.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'), OSError('/home/user991/.local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/electrum/libsecp256k1.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'), OSError('libsecp256k1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'), OSError('libsecp256k1.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'), OSError('libsecp256k1.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory')]
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sudo dnf install libsecp256k1-abc
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