How to install Buzz in Linux

[jowis]

Hello, I was trying to install Buzz on Ubuntu 22.04.2. I have downloaded and extracted the file "Buzz-x.y.z-unix.tar.gz" but I don't know how to continue... many thanks.

Joel

[chidiwilliams]

@jowis What happens when you double-click to run the Buzz binary after extracting?

[jowis]

Hi @chidiwilliams

Thanks for your message. I have tried to install whisper on Ubuntu today using the command lines that are provided in README.md and they work fine. However, when I try to record I get an error message for any of the models. Using as a model "Whisper", it shows:

An error occurred while loading the Whisper model: A connection error occurred.Please retry or check the application logs for more information.

The last four logs are:

• File "/snap/buzz/12/lib/python3.10/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 1021, in raise_for_status
• File "/snap/buzz/12/buzz/model_loader.py", line 218, in download_model
• File "/snap/buzz/12/buzz/model_loader.py", line 181, in download_model_to_path
• [2023-11-05 08:41:37,022] model_loader.download_model:192 DEBUG -> Downloading model from https://huggingface.co/datasets/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/resolve/main/ggml-tiny.bin to /home/joel/snap/buzz/common/.cache/Buzz/ggml-model-whisper-tiny.bin

[jowis]

I found a solution to the problem. Buzzer didn't have all the permissions needed to record.

[hardbrocklife]

I did this, and it runs, but I get the following when I try to download any of the models:

"An error occurred while loading the Whisper model: [Errno 18] Invalid cross-device link: '/tmp/tmp9tljsg__' -> '/home/hardbrocklife/.cache/whisper/base.pt'.Please retry or check the application logs for more information."

I am not proficient yet with building things from source. I tried the Poetry installation and it worked as intended, but I believe python updated and broke everything a week later and I am not proficient enough to fix it.

I downloaded the Linux.zip, extracted it to home/buzz and ran the Buzz executable and that launches the application as intended. It just looks like the operation to download the models and transfer/process them to .cache/whisper/ as XXXX.pt is not working.

Im all for following instructions if you care to give them. This application seems legit and Im excited to try it. Not a fan of sending personal or work related convos to an API.

Specs:
Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.106.0
Qt Version: 5.15.9
Kernel Version: 6.1.31-2-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 24 × AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor
Memory: 62.7 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080/PCIe/SSE2

[hardbrocklife]

To add, the snap that faveoled created does the same thing, which makes me wonder if its a permissions thing??

Download failed: [Errno 18] Invalid cross-device link: '/tmp/tmp2guykkl4' -> '/home/hardbrocklife/snap/buzz-fo/common/.cache/base.pt'

[hardbrocklife]

Just an FYI, it worked perfectly installing the .exe with wine. I spent hours trying to figure out why I kept getting this error:

"[2023-06-12 11:21:01,094] transcriber.read_line:586 DEBUG -> whisper (stderr): torch/cuda/init.py:146: UserWarning:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 with CUDA capability sm_86 is not compatible with the current PyTorch installation.
The current PyTorch install supports CUDA capabilities sm_37 sm_50 sm_60 sm_70.
If you want to use the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 GPU with PyTorch, please check the instructions at https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/"

I installed and reinstalled the CUDA toolchain multiple times, with both pip and conda, trying multiple version and always got the same error.

Out of curiosity I installed the .exe with wine and it works immediately right out of the box. I already had wine installed as the default handler of .exe, which is easy to do. I double clicked the exe, ran the installer, selected the video I wanted to transcribe, and it took maybe 3-5 min to transcribe a 50 minute work meeting. I dont know how I should feel about this lol.

[chidiwilliams]

Interesting. Glad to hear the .exe worked for you. I've been working on building a .snap bundle based on @faveoled's config. I'll see if I run into a similar error when I test it out. If you find any hint as well, feel free to let me know / send a PR.

[jowis]

I've tried to use Buzz with Wine. But I get an error message that states that a severe problem has been found and the program has to be closed. Then I can download a description of the problem. I paste it below.

Unhandled exception: unimplemented function api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll.fetestexcept called in 64-bit code (0x000000007b011e0e).
Register dump:
 rip:000000007b011e0e rsp:00000000002fc240 rbp:00000000002fc4d0 eflags:00000202 (   - --  I   - - - )
 rax:00000000002fc280 rbx:000000007b60e648 rcx:00000000002fc260 rdx:0000000000000001
 rsi:00000000002fc350 rdi:00000000002fc290  r8:0000000000000002  r9:00000000002fc340 r10:0000000006dc709c
 r11:0000000000000002 r12:0000000000000000 r13:00000000002fc780 r14:0000000000000002 r15:0000000000000000
Stack dump:
0x00000000002fc240:  00000000002fc260 000000018007b741
0x00000000002fc250:  0000000000dd48f8 0000000000dd4908
0x00000000002fc260:  0000000180000100 0000000000000000
0x00000000002fc270:  000000007b011e0e 0000000000000002
0x00000000002fc280:  0000000262252000 0000000262252088
0x00000000002fc290:  000000000f3bd510 0000000000000008
0x00000000002fc2a0:  0000000000000000 000000000f3bd4f8
0x00000000002fc2b0:  0000000000000008 0000000000000000
0x00000000002fc2c0:  0000000000000000 00000003af6a5e14
0x00000000002fc2d0:  0000000000dd48f8 000000018000c324
0x00000000002fc2e0:  000000000f3a3c70 00007f7a61514a21
0x00000000002fc2f0:  0000000000dd48f8 0000000006c46c3d
Backtrace:
=>0 0x000000007b011e0e EntryPoint+0xffffffffffffffff() in kernelbase (0x00000000002fc4d0)
  1 0x0000000262251135 EntryPoint+0x200001134() in api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.d (0x00000000002fc4d0)
0x000000007b011e0e EntryPoint+0xffffffffffffffff in kernelbase: nop	
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System information:
    Wine build: wine-6.0.3 (Ubuntu 6.0.3~repack-1)
    Platform: x86_64
    Version: Windows 7
    Host system: Linux
    Host version: 6.2.0-36-generic

[raivisdejus]

Also worth noting that Buzz is now on Snap store https://snapcraft.io/buzz and contribution section has notes on how to run the source version locally https://github.com/chidiwilliams/buzz/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md