Can not install but says it is.

Software Rapid Photo Downloader
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Linux mint, trying to install and I have given up. Tried everything I can find to try.

Here is the output. If I read this right it says it is installed but program is not there.

python3 install.py
Detected Linux distribution Linux Mint 18.3
Downloading https://launchpad.net/rapid/pyqt/0.9.24/+download/rapid-photo-downloader-0.9.24.tar.gz (8.15 MB)
0% [##############################] 100% | ETA: 00:00:00
Total time elapsed: 00:00:01
Querying package system to see if an older version of Rapid Photo Downloader is installed (this may take a while)…
Checking if previous version installed with pip…
DEPRECATION: Python 3.5 reached the end of its life on September 13th, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 3.5 is no longer maintained. pip 21.0 will drop support for Python 3.5 in January 2021. pip 21.0 will remove support for this functionality.
DEPRECATION: Python 3.5 reached the end of its life on September 13th, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 3.5 is no longer maintained. pip 21.0 will drop support for Python 3.5 in January 2021. pip 21.0 will remove support for this functionality.
Found existing installation: rapid-photo-downloader 0.9.24
Uninstalling rapid-photo-downloader-0.9.24:
Successfully uninstalled rapid-photo-downloader-0.9.24
DEPRECATION: Python 3.5 reached the end of its life on September 13th, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 3.5 is no longer maintained. pip 21.0 will drop support for Python 3.5 in January 2021. pip 21.0 will remove support for this functionality.
Removing symlink /home/kudzu/bin/rapid-photo-downloader
Removing symlink /home/kudzu/bin/analyze-pv-structure

Installing application requirements…

Looking in indexes: https://pypi.python.org/simple/
Ignoring pyzmq: markers ‘python_version >= “3.6”’ don’t match your environment
Ignoring typing: markers ‘python_version < “3.5”’ don’t match your environment
Ignoring scandir: markers ‘python_version < “3.5”’ don’t match your environment
Requirement already satisfied: psutil>=3.4.2 in ./.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from -r /tmp/tmpl94ceol_ (line 4)) (5.4.7)
Requirement already satisfied: gphoto2>=2.2.0 in ./.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from -r /tmp/tmpl94ceol_ (line 5)) (2.2.4)
Requirement already satisfied: pyzmq<=15.1.0,>=14.4.1 in ./.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from -r /tmp/tmpl94ceol_ (line 6)) (15.1.0)
Requirement already satisfied: pyxdg>=0.25 in ./.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from -r /tmp/tmpl94ceol_ (line 8)) (0.26)
Requirement already satisfied: arrow>=0.9.0 in ./.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from -r /tmp/tmpl94ceol_ (line 9)) (0.12.1)
Requirement already satisfied: python-dateutil>=2.2 in ./.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from -r /tmp/tmpl94ceol_ (line 10)) (2.7.3)
Requirement already satisfied: rawkit>=0.6.0 in ./.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from -r /tmp/tmpl94ceol_ (line 11)) (0.6.0)
Requirement already satisfied: PyPrind>=2.9.4 in ./.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from -r /tmp/tmpl94ceol_ (line 12)) (2.11.2)
Requirement already satisfied: colorlog>=2.6 in ./.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from -r /tmp/tmpl94ceol_ (line 13)) (3.1.4)
Requirement already satisfied: easygui<=0.97.4 in ./.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from -r /tmp/tmpl94ceol_ (line 16)) (0.97.4)
Requirement already satisfied: colour in ./.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from -r /tmp/tmpl94ceol_ (line 17)) (0.1.5)
Requirement already satisfied: pymediainfo>=2.2.0 in ./.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from -r /tmp/tmpl94ceol_ (line 18)) (4.2.1)
Requirement already satisfied: sortedcontainers in ./.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from -r /tmp/tmpl94ceol_ (line 19)) (2.0.5)
Requirement already satisfied: requests in ./.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from -r /tmp/tmpl94ceol_ (line 20)) (2.19.1)
Requirement already satisfied: tornado in ./.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from -r /tmp/tmpl94ceol_ (line 21)) (4.5.3)
Requirement already satisfied: tenacity in ./.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from -r /tmp/tmpl94ceol_ (line 22)) (5.1.1)
Requirement already satisfied: pillow>=5.1.0 in ./.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from -r /tmp/tmpl94ceol_ (line 23)) (7.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: Babel in ./.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from -r /tmp/tmpl94ceol_ (line 25)) (2.8.0)
Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.5 in ./.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from python-dateutil>=2.2->-r /tmp/tmpl94ceol_ (line 10)) (1.12.0)
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in ./.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from pymediainfo>=2.2.0->-r /tmp/tmpl94ceol_ (line 18)) (50.3.2)
Requirement already satisfied: idna<2.8,>=2.5 in ./.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from requests->-r /tmp/tmpl94ceol_ (line 20)) (2.7)
Requirement already satisfied: certifi>=2017.4.17 in ./.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from requests->-r /tmp/tmpl94ceol_ (line 20)) (2018.8.24)
Requirement already satisfied: urllib3<1.24,>=1.21.1 in ./.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from requests->-r /tmp/tmpl94ceol_ (line 20)) (1.23)
Requirement already satisfied: chardet<3.1.0,>=3.0.2 in ./.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from requests->-r /tmp/tmpl94ceol_ (line 20)) (3.0.4)
Requirement already satisfied: pytz>=2015.7 in ./.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (from Babel->-r /tmp/tmpl94ceol_ (line 25)) (2020.1)

System support for generating HEIF / HEIC thumbnails is unavailable

Installing application…

Processing /tmp/tmpjj3odzd4/rapid-photo-downloader-0.9.24.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: rapid-photo-downloader
Building wheel for rapid-photo-downloader (setup.py): started
Building wheel for rapid-photo-downloader (setup.py): finished with status ‘done’
Created wheel for rapid-photo-downloader: filename=rapid_photo_downloader-0.9.24-py3-none-any.whl size=6438178 sha256=38e02807c543b0f8ca38ea0d112bb132f8df0c2b08b0187c446924d4d3177cac
Stored in directory: /home/kudzu/.cache/pip/wheels/d4/7a/26/d9bb2b4bceec056202fdb92f89ced6b3c58ea3009f40ef5aae
Successfully built rapid-photo-downloader
Installing collected packages: rapid-photo-downloader
Successfully installed rapid-photo-downloader-0.9.24
Using existing path /home/kudzu/bin for program executable
Creating symlink /home/kudzu/bin/rapid-photo-downloader
If you uninstall the application without using this install.py script, remove this symlink yourself.
Creating symlink /home/kudzu/bin/analyze-pv-structure
If you uninstall the application without using this install.py script, remove this symlink yourself.

2

Is your version of linux mint new? You’re getting a lot of python errors.

3

Hi Jeff,

Can you please explain what you mean by this, precisely? Do you mean that there is not an icon for the program in the Linux Mint menu? Or do you mean you cannot start it from the command line?

Did you log out or reboot after installing Rapid Photo Downloader? The installation script should have instructed you to do so if that was necessary.

In any case, from a terminal run this command:

which rapid-photo-downloader

and let me know what the output is.

Jeff is running a version of Linux Mint which Linux Mint themselves will supported for only a few more months. It’s really old and almost all its software is seriously out of date by today’s standards.

One of the things I need to do for Rapid Photo Downloader is handle these out of date environments, which some people still seem to be running to this day ( I’m unsure why, but I’m sure people have their reasons ).

I’m looking forward to being able to use features from more recent versions of Python, for example.

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Output is
/home/kudzu/bin/rapid-photo-downloader

Two files there.
analyze-pv-structure and rapid-photo-downloader

I didn’t realize this was a old version of Mint. I come from Windows and have had such bad luck with upgrades over the years, that I tend to use a version as long as they work. Upgrades have bit me in the butt so many times!

I guess I need upgrade then. Did not realized this was that old frankly.

PS And to you other questions, no icon. When I search for the program I don’t see it.
Command line is not my strong point even though I am comfortable with it. I do like the GUI a lot better.

5

Did you reboot?

6

Pretty sure I did but I will do it again and report back shortly.

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Just rebooted and I have an icon but the program will not start. I just set it as a default for camera and it didn’t start when I put my SD card in either.

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Insert your SD card whenever you want, but start Rapid Photo Downloader from the main menu.

If Rapid Photo Downloader will not start at all, then run it from the command line like this:

rapid-photo-downloader --debug

then copy and paste any error output here.

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$ rapid-photo-downloader --debug
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin “xcb” in “” even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, webgl, xcb.

Fatal Python error: Aborted

Current thread 0x00007f217f32d700 (most recent call first):
File “/home/kudzu/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/raphodo/viewutils.py”, line 464 in any_screen_scaled_qt
File “/home/kudzu/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/raphodo/viewutils.py”, line 480 in any_screen_scaled
File “/home/kudzu/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/raphodo/rapid.py”, line 6385 in main
File “/home/kudzu/bin/rapid-photo-downloader”, line 8 in
Aborted

10

Okay. Try this from the command line:

sudo apt-get install libqt5x11extras5

See if you can start Rapid Photo Downloader after that.

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Nop. Here is the readout. BTW, I used to have it on here. No idea why it disappeared.

sudo apt-get install libqt5x11extras5
[sudo] password for kudzu:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
libqt5x11extras5 is already the newest version (5.5.1-3build1).
libqt5x11extras5 set to manually installed.
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
python-gnome2
Use ‘sudo apt autoremove’ to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 287 not upgraded.

12

Try this also:

sudo apt-get install libxkbcommon-x11-0

Then again try to launch Rapid Photo Downloader

13

No.

libxkbcommon-x11-0 is already the newest version (0.5.0-1ubuntu2.1).

14

You still got this exact same error message?

qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin “xcb” in “” even though it was found.

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I was just able to reproduce the error on an install of Linux Mint 18.3 I have. Which is interesting, as I was never able to reproduce it before.

This will fix the problem:

python3 install.py --use-system-PyQt5

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Actually it is a little different.

Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
libxkbcommon-x11-0 is already the newest version (0.5.0-1ubuntu2.1).
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
python-gnome2
Use ‘sudo apt autoremove’ to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 287 not upgraded.

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Jeff, do this, it will work:

18

Hate to disappoint you but nothing. I rebooted too.

$ rapid-photo-downloader --debug
Segmentation fault

Debug output is getting smaller. :wink:

19

Sorry, it works for me. This also works for me:

python3 install.py --PyQt5-version 5.14.2

BTW if you want to save time manually download the tarball, and run the command like this:

python3 install.py --PyQt5-version 5.14.2 rapid-photo-downloader-0.9.24.tar.gz

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I am seriously considering a format and reinstall of a newer version of Mint. Everything else works fine and as I said, it was working just fine and then it wasn’t there? Just hate to fix it when it isn’t broke… other than this.