I assumed from one of your sentences that somehow it had been provided by
apt. Probably not - I'd just been thinking that apt upgraded Python,
really.. As I just found out, a system upgrade can require a whole new
installation of Leo using pip/pip3, which brings in new versions of all
Leo's dependencies.
On Saturday, July 25, 2020 at 4:17:25 PM UTC-4, Geoff Evans wrote:
>
> Thanks, I'll try that when I'm better able to concentrate if things start
> going wrong.
> One puzzle, though: you refer to the Ubuntu package manager providing it:
> I didn't think leo was part of the Ubuntu distribution.
> (What I'd really love is if it was part of the Anaconda distribution :-)
>
> geoff
>
> On Saturday, 25 July 2020 at 11:24:36 UTC-2:30 tbp1...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> v5.9 is very old by now. I'm surprised that the Ubuntu package manager
>> is still providing it. The chances of troubleshooting this package are
>> probably small at this point.
>>
>> I'd suggest installing the current version of Leo directly using pip.
>> Make sure that you have python 3.6+ on your system. You may have to use
>> apt-get to get pip installed - some distros don't include it with Python,
>> some do, and I don't remember about Ubuntu. It may need to be called pip3
>> to make sure it's the one for Python 3.x. Then install Leo:
>>
>> pip3 install leo # pip3 instead of pip should make sure you are using
>> the Python 3.x version instead of the Python 2.7 version.
>>
>> Or to see which versions are available:
>>
>> pip3 install leo==
>>
>> On some systems you might need to use sudo:
>>
>> sudo pip3 install leo
>>
>> Or, if the system isn't finding the correct version of pip:
>>
>> python3 -m pip install leo # python3 will launch the available
>> version of pip for Python 3.x
>>
>> As of today, the latest version of Leo available this way is 6.2.1.
>>
>> On Saturday, July 25, 2020 at 9:30:30 AM UTC-4, Geoff Evans wrote:
>>>
>>> When I try to run leo now (in Ubuntu 18.04) I get:
>>>
>>> (base) geoff:1427>leo ogmap.leo
>>>
>>> setting leoID from os.getenv('USER'): 'geoff'
>>> Leo 5.9-b2, build 20190409061733, Tue Apr 9 06:17:32 UTC 2019
>>> livecode.py: can not import meta
>>> pip install meta
>>> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>>>
>>> It used to work fine; all I can think of that's changed is that I've
>>> done "apt-get update/upgrade": cuold that have broken a prerequisite?
>>>
>>> Best, geoff
>>>
>>
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