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Ncmprhnsbl · Joined: 27 Oct 2011 Posts: 11 Location: australia

if somebody wants something to do Laughing

http://mypaint.intilinux.com/

when lucid puppy came along i thought great, easy installation of widely available apps....not quite Crying or Very sad

... installs fine but no run....maybe squeeze? nope..
the problem seems to be in the way puppy handles python, mypaint being mostly python and some C.
not that this is puppys' problem.
my guess is the python script that starts/runs mypaint needs some hacking......a very uneducated guess. Wink

thanks for reading

Karl Godt · Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 3639 Location: Kiel,Germany

You may read

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=71332

AND

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72339

disciple · Posted: Wed 02 Nov 2011, 02:13 Post_subject:

Mypaint is nothing to do with mtPaint.

Ncmprhnsbl · Joined: 27 Oct 2011 Posts: 11 Location: australia

hi, thanks for the replies.. mt.... My... easy to confuse Wink

sorry for the lack of specifics.. from memory the error was something to do with not finding python.. i'll get back to you with a more detailed error message..
as it happens, this was posted in Requests... some kind person has appeared to have moved it....

Ncmprhnsbl · Joined: 27 Oct 2011 Posts: 11 Location: australia

OK.... reinstalled in lucid 5.25...from ubuntu 'universe' in PPM ....mypaint vers 0.8.2 latest version is 0.9.1... seems to be missing or wrong python things..maybe Confused

Karl Godt · Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 3639 Location: Kiel,Germany

python can be nasty or tricky with its path in
/usr/lib/python2.6

watch out to link /usr/share/python || /usr/local/lib/python to it if necessary , and that the files are in the right sub-directory .

i would dl the source code to check it : python i think is a scripting language , so the Makefile inside the source is just for make install 'ing to the [ haha right directories ] . The diff should probably be applied , too , since Lupu-Ubuntu puts some libs to /lib and not to /usr/lib .

Sorry not to help out for more , and apologize , i really had confused mt and my , and this happens to me more often than i would like it ... ; did not know of My-Paint before .

disciple · Posted: Thu 03 Nov 2011, 07:12 Post_subject:

"we are not correctly installed or compiled"

Sorry, that's a new one to me. I've dealt quite a bit with Python now, but I'm no expert Sad