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[solved]Software Manager Broke (Tracking Debian Testing)
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 9:13 am
by GeneC
This install is tracking the standard "Debian Testing".
All updates as of today.
I noticed a post yesterday by "mycat"
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=76873
that his Software Manager stopped working. I decided to check mine.
It launches with icon but freezes at:
Screenshot-Software Manager.png
Running 'mintinstall" from terminal yeilds:
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gene@zordon ~ $ mintinstall
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintInstall/mintinstall.py:250: SyntaxWarning: import * only allowed at module level
def get_status_description(self, transaction):
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintInstall/mintinstall.py:258: SyntaxWarning: import * only allowed at module level
def get_role_description(self, transaction):
add_categories took 1.350 ms
build_matched_packages took 0.221 ms
7133
add_packages took 1509.597 ms
add_reviews took 0.098 ms
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintInstall/mintinstall.py", line 1540, in <module>
Application()
File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintInstall/mintinstall.py", line 38, in wrapper
res = func(*arg)
File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintInstall/mintinstall.py", line 473, in __init__
sans26 = ImageFont.truetype ( self.FONT, 26 )
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PIL/ImageFont.py", line 218, in truetype
return FreeTypeFont(filename, size, index, encoding)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PIL/ImageFont.py", line 134, in __init__
self.font = core.getfont(file, size, index, encoding)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PIL/ImageFont.py", line 34, in __getattr__
raise ImportError("The _imagingft C module is not installed")
ImportError: The _imagingft C module is not installed
Overwriting reviews file in /home/gene/.linuxmint/mintinstall/reviews.list
update_reviews took 491.336 ms
gene@zordon ~ $
Seems that
The " _imagingft C module is not installed"?
What is this module?
P.s.
I uninstalled,
logged out/in,
reinstalled "mintinstall"
Same thing.
Re: Software Manager Broke (Tracking Debian Testing)
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 11:32 am
by Spec-chum
I'm tracking sid and can confirm this issue on sid too (sid up-to-date as of about 1 week ago).
Re: Software Manager Broke (Tracking Debian Testing)
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 1:39 pm
by amina
That's strange, I've got a fully updated LMDE tracking Incoming, with Mintinstall v7.3.3, no problems here.
Re: Software Manager Broke (Tracking Debian Testing)
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 1:53 pm
by GeneC
Found the solution right here on the forum...
Re: Software Manager Hangs on Gathering Information
by andyfang on Sun Jul 10, 2011 4:27 am
I found the solution !
when package "pyhon-imaging" version is 1.1.7.3
this error will happen.
so .
get the "python-imaging" version 1.1.7.2 from Debian stable package ,
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/python-imaging
than, remove python-imaging 1.1.7.3 and install 1.1.7.2
you can get the right result.
cheers
Here =
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 8&p=446333
Thanks "andyfang"
That fixed it.
I enable Debian "stable" repo (temporarily)
Forced the install (downgrade) of "python-imaging" to 1.1.7.2
Software Manager is working ok again.
Lock this version until a fix is provided.
Re: Software Manager Broke (Tracking Debian Testing)
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 2:20 pm
by GeneC
amina wrote:That's strange, I've got a fully updated LMDE tracking Incoming, with Mintinstall v7.3.3, no problems here.
Amina
Thinking because your tracking "incoming" you wont get this package upgrade of 'python-imaging 1.1.7.3'
Check Your probably still at ''python-imaging 1.1.7.2'.
This will apply to tracking "Debian TESTING"
Re: [solved]Software Manager Broke (Tracking Debian Testing)
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 5:28 pm
by amina
You're right
It's 1.1.7.2 indeed
Re: [solved]Software Manager Broke (Tracking Debian Testing)
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 11:54 am
by selmopessoa
Just updated to version 1.1.7.4 and got Software Manager running again.
Re: [solved]Software Manager Broke (Tracking Debian Testing)
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 5:59 pm
by misGnomer
I accidentally started Software Manager (mintinstall) and got the startup banner churning on and on on my desktop (background but still..).
I tried uninstalling the bugger and it took the mint-meta-common package out with it... hmm. Since it doesn't have its own process I tried killing python but the pesky banner just wouldn't give up!
Finally I remembered old friend
xkill which did it!
Re: [solved]Software Manager Broke (Tracking Debian Testing)
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 1:05 am
by m2xtreme
For those of you experiencing problems with mintinstall, make sure you have the following packages installed (which are not listed in the dependencies but are required)
This is primarily an issue for people who have removed some packages from their Mint install or who have tried installing mint packages on a different distro (i.e. Debian or Ubuntu).
All credit goes to Eon for this as found in this thread:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=65990