I for some reason thought I was using 2.whatever frescobaldi on Ubuntu 17.10 but it is in fact 3.0. I remember it crashing iniitially but after throwing the error into google there was some reasonably simple fix, but going through the terminal history hasn't revealed what it was.
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From: address@hidden
Date: 12/27/17 6:50 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Next round on frescobaldi dependencies
23. Dezember 2017 03:30, "Simon Albrecht" <
address@hidden> schrieb:
Hello everybody,
just to let you know: After gathering from the recent thread that the situation with frescobaldi dependencies and conflicting versions of python would be easier to handle with Ubuntu 17, I tried getting it to work on a pristine 17.10 live system – unsucessfully, with another weird bug (?) preventing to build sip from source. Here’s all the details: https://github.com/wbsoft/python-poppler-qt5/issues/14#issuecomment-353697574 Best, Simon
Hello all,
by chance I just had the opportunity to sit in front of a computer with a freshly installed Ubuntu Mate 17.10.
Although LilyPond isn't on the list of things to be installed on that computer I couldn't resist ...
I went through the instructions on https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/wiki/Running-Frescobaldi-3-From-Source-Git-(Linux) - and to my great surprise I didn't have any issues.
I installed the dependencies with
sudo apt install git python3-pyqt5 python3-pyqt5.qtsvg python3-poppler-qt5 python3-pyqt5.qtwebkit
(note that the qtwebkit package was missing from the instructions (and I have updated them accordingly))
then cloned the repositories of Frescobaldi and python-ly,
added python-ly to PYTHONPATH
and could immediately invoke Frescobaldi with `python3 path/to/frescobaldi`
including the music view and the SVG viewer.
Just to let everybody know.
Best
Urs