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Posted: **Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:13 pm**

Hi i did a recent sid update and mintinstall stopped working and i dont quite understand why here a print out of what its doing

/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 2.218 ms
build_matched_packages took 0.502 ms
4230
add_packages took 1801.044 ms
add_reviews took 375.775 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

Posted: **Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:55 pm**

Well, something with Python and true type fonts . . . don't think mintInstall was ever tested with SID, Mint is based on Testing . . good luck.

Posted: **Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:34 pm**

I have the same problem, but as far as I know just using the testing repo. Just did a fresh install of Mint XFCE DE 64bit:
Ran full update using update manager (of levels 1-3, 19.00 GMT 09/07), default settings.
Installed Wine 1.3.24 using .deb binaries linked on winehq.
Installed nvidia drivers using sgfxi.
--> mintinstall does not run. Same error in terminal as magedx9. Tried reinstalling python-imaging and mintinstall to no avail.

Posted: **Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:47 pm**

Probably some new Python stuff from Sid has just hit Testing. I'm sure that the Mint team will notice this if they're not too busy with the new update packs.

Posted: **Mon Jul 11, 2011 8:32 am**

Glad to see it is not only mee. It might have happened something with a recent update.

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gorade@hippocampus:~$ sudo mintinstall
[sudo] password for gorade: 
/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 1.348 ms
build_matched_packages took 0.235 ms
8736
add_packages took 1932.467 ms
add_reviews took 451.556 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 /root/.linuxmint/mintinstall/reviews.list
update_reviews took 278.831 ms
gorade@hippocampus:~$

I have tried to reload from backup, but I am not sure which file is wrong.

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