failed to download FreeType during install

[Aline-Git]

Hello,
Thanks for building this tool that we look forward to use !

I'm trying to install it following the guidlines here :

https://telofinder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#installation, but when I run the command
python setup.py install
I get this error :

Setup script exited with error: Failed to download FreeType. Please download one of ['https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/freetype/freetype2/2.6.1/freetype-2.6.1.tar.gz', 'https://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.6.1.tar.gz'] and extract it into build/freetype-2.6.1 at the top-level of the source repository.

So I did downlaod the package from the first link, put it in the telofinder/build directory and extracted it. But I continue to have the same error.

I tested this on Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 with exactly the same result. I don't know what to try next, some help would be much appreciated.

Best regards,

Aline

[khourhin]

Thanks Aline for the report !

It appears to be a python > 3.8 issue. I tested and the current installation indeed fails with python 3.9, 3.10, 3.11. I now updated the master branch and it is supporting python 3.10 and 3.11.

I updated the installation instructions see:
https://github.com/GillesFischerSorbonne/telofinder/blob/master/doc/index.rst#installation

Can you try and let me know ? In the meantime I will look for the issue with more recent python versions.