eric ide freezes at startup - Fixed

[micksulley]

I recently installed Mint21 Cinnamon and have spent days trying to fix a problem with eric ide freezing when it starts. It took me a while and many, many reinstalls to fix it and so I thought it may be worthwhile recoding it here in case anyone else hits the problem.

eric install from https://eric-ide.python-projects.org/

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    cd ~
    python3 -m venv eric_env
    ~/eric_env/bin/python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
    ~/eric_env/bin/python3 -m pip install eric-ide
    ~/eric_env/bin/eric7_post_install

I installed Mint21 on my desktop, installed eric and it froze at startup, could not click on anything.
I installed Mint21 on an old laptop, installed eric and it worked fine.
I installed Ubuntu 22.04 on my desktop, installed eric and it worked fine.

After many, many re-installs etc I noticed that the video driver on desktop was "xserver-xorg-video-nouveau" but the recommended one was "nvidea-driver-515". I changed it and now eric runs again. The old laptop did not have a video driver installed, so did not have teh issue.

Hope that helps someone else.

Mick

[eegrek39]

I have upgraded to Linux Mint 21 Vanessa
I tried this
~/eric_env/bin/python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
but it keeps on saying No module named pip
in the package manager there is only 1 package which is python3-pip-whl
I tried to substitute the pip with python3-pip-whl
~/eric_env/bin/python3 -m python3-pip-whl install --upgrade python3-pip-whl
I get message - No Module named python3-pip-whl
Is there anything else I can try?

[eegrek39]

Sorry all is now well - I must have typed the code incorrectly - Many thanks for the solution