running frescobaldi on ubuntu jammy

[Stefan Thomas]

Dear community,

I've recently updated my system to ubuntu 22.04.

I've tried to install frescobaldi via apt, but  unfortunately, it doesn't work.

But I also downloaded frescobaldi from git and, strange enough, I can run it with python3 frescobaldi.

But I can't install it from there. Should I install frescobaldi 3.1. instead or what else can I do?

Thanks for your help,

Stefan

[Kevin Cole]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 6:03 AM Stefan Thomas <kontrapu...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've recently updated my system to ubuntu 22.04.
I've tried to install frescobaldi via apt, but  unfortunately, it doesn't work.
But I also downloaded frescobaldi from git and, strange enough, I can run it with python3 frescobaldi.
But I can't install it from there. Should I install frescobaldi 3.1. instead or what else can I do?

I'm a bit OCD about keeping track of what I've installed and how... After a bit of fighting with Frescobaldi, I eventually came up with something that works for me. (I'm running 3.2.)

What I did (extracted and reformatted from my notes):

```

$ wget https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/releases/download/v3.2/frescobaldi-3.2.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf frescobaldi-3.2.tar.gz
$ cd frescobaldi-3.2
$ python3 setup.py install --user
$ frescobaldi

    The 'qpageview' module can't be found.

    Frescobaldi can't find the 'qpageview' module. This module is required
    for the Music View and other viewers inside Frescobaldi, and can be
    downloaded from http://github.com/frescobaldi/qpageview.

    Unfortunately, Frescobaldi cannot run without it.
```

• The official qpageview module is on GitHub (https://github.com/frescobaldi/qpageview). But I'd much rather install it from PyPi (https://pypi.org/project/qpageview/)

```
$ pip3 install --user  qpageview
```

HOWEVER... Later in my notes:

• apt keeps bugging me about unused packages that it wants to autoremove.  History has taught me that it doesn't always get things right.  The recommendation to remove python3-ly, python3-pygame, python3-poppler-qt5, and tango-icon-theme break frescobaldi. Purging and explicitly reinstalling takes them out of apt's autoremove hit list. But THIS is EXACTLY why I didn't want to keep track of frescobaldi manually and was hoping for a .deb that would be integrated into apt's understanding of the universe: The cascade effect.

```
$ apt purge   python3-ly python3-poppler-qt5 python3-pygame tango-icon-theme
$ apt install python3-ly python3-poppler-qt5 python3-pygame tango-icon-theme
```