Hi Urs, I did now test the instructions on an Ubuntu 16.04 Live system, and it seems to work (Frescobaldi is up and running; I didn't test any of the features). There's one typo: popller->poppler. My first question would be: what solution to using a .desktop file and still use the correct python-ly, but IIUC that's already covered by your TODO list. Another item to be covered would be configuring MIDI output. I remember that on one of the attempts that I made to install I also tried to set up python-portmidi following http://frescobaldi.org/download, but that seemed to be a new can of worms and I couldn't get it to work (didn't dig deep either). Best, Simon
Am 06-Jan-2018 15:19:32 +0100 schrieb li...@openlilylib.org: I have now finished a run-through of installation instructions. As I have once more renamed it the link is now https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/wiki/Installing-Frescobaldi-3-on-Linux-(Package-or-Source) I'd be glad about feedback: * confirmation * questions * reports about mistakes * reports about failures * reports/comments about distributions not covered yet. Urs 6. Januar 2018 11:41, li...@openlilylib.org schrieb: > Hi all, > > after all the discussion about getting Frescobaldi to run on distributions > based on Ubuntu < 17.xx > I decided to give it a shot myself. > > TL;DR Frescobaldi *can* be installed on Ubuntu 16.04/Mint 18.3 from its own > Git repositories and > the Ubuntu package repositories without issues. > > Context/Situation: > I freshly installed Linux Mint 18.3. > (NOTE: I use a previously existing $HOME directory, but I'm quite sure this > doesn't affect the > process) > Mint 18.3 is based on Ubuntu 16.04 (Mint 19 will be based on Ubuntu 18.04, > the next LTS release), > and the relevant packages are from the Ubuntu repositories (so no Mint > specifics added), which > means I assume the behaviour on vanilla Ubuntu 16.04 is the same. > > Commented installation steps: > > # Make sure everything is up-to-date > sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade > > sudo apt install git > > # Install Frescobaldi's primary dependencies > sudo apt install python3-pyqt5 python3-pyqt5.qtsvg python3-pyqt5.qtwebkit > > # Obtain the Git repositories > # (I *assume* these could instead be downloaded from Github as ZIP files) > cd ~ > mkdir git # this is just my personal base directory for Git repositories > cd git > git clone https://github.com/wbsoft/python-ly.git python-ly > git clone https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi.git frescobaldi > > First try to run Frescobaldi: Invoke python3 with the frescobaldi entry file > and add python-ly to > the Python search path: > > PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:~/git/python-ly python3 ~/git/frescobaldi/frescobaldi > > Frescobaldi correctly starts up, but (expectedly) doesn't show the Music > View because the Poppler > package isn't installed. > > # Install the Poppler bindings from the Ubuntu repositories > sudo apt install python3-poppler-qt5 > > After that Frescobaldi correctly starts and shows scores both in the Music > View and in the SVG > View. > > Knowing this one could have installed all dependencies with one single > > sudo apt install python3-pyqt5 python3-pyqt5.qtsvg python3-pyqt5.qtwebkit > python3-poppler-qt5 > > ### > > I don't know enough about this and I can't investigate on a "broken" > computer, but I have a > suspicion. > The issue is that we have Qt, an application framework written in C++. > Frescobaldi is written in > PyQt, which is a set of Qt "bindings" for Python, so Python programs can use > the Qt infrastructure. > > The point is that all bindings packages (which includes the general PyQt > infrastructure and the > custom bindings for the Poppler library that is used to display PDF > documents) have to be "compiled > against" and with the exact versions of Qt and Python that are installed on > the system. > Generally this is an aspect that should be taken care of by a Linux > distribution's package > management system, and my latest try indicates that this works correctly > with Ubuntu 16.04 (by > now?). > > My suspicion is that when using pip (or pip3) for installing the Python > packages these relations > are in some way incorrect, maybe they interfere with packages installed > through APT. > Similarly, when using the setup.py script in the Frescobaldi installation > directory things seem not > to work correctly. > Finally it is maybe not clear enough in the instructions that *everything* > (i.e. Ubuntu packages > and pip) have to be used in their python3 versions. > > So my final recommendation is: Use Ubuntu's packages and install everything > through APT, and avoid > pip3 or setup.py. > > I will update the Wiki page > (https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/wiki/Installing-Frescobaldi-3-on-Linux-(package-source), > note that I have renamed it) and try to make everything as clear as > possible. But I wanted to share > this result and encourage people using Ubuntu 16.04 to test and verify it. > > Best > Urs > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
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