[SOLVED] Missing dependencies for Linux

[MF366-Coding]

How it happened?

I was testing WriterClassic on Linux and I clicked About.

But I just got a blank window with nothing inside of it.

What is the problem?

The title already says it all: missing dependencies for Linux.

How to fix it?

You can easily fix it by installing those dependencies.

WriterClassic uses 2 modules that don't come with Linux by default. tkinter and PIL.

Those modules must be installed with the package manager of your Linux distro, not with pip.

Their packages' names are:

python3-tk
python3-pil
python3-pil.imagetk

python3-pil.imagetk is used to place WriterClassic's logo on the About window.

It is separated from python3-pil, which means you'll have to install both to acess both PIL and PIL's ImageTk. Don't forget to install tkinter too!

[norbcodes]

Maybe difficult to implement, but maybe have the packages be installed when you run the Installation Wizard?

[MF366-Coding]

The Installation Wizard is an executable so it wouldn't run on Linux without an emulation service.

[norbcodes]

Oh yea I forgot this is a Linux issue lol

Maybe make the python file itself somehow download the packages?

[MF366-Coding]

I am sure that would be possible by using sys.platform == "linux" and os.system().

The problem is: how can I know what is the pckage manager of the Linux Distro the user is using? There isn't a unique package manager for all distros.

But if it works, your idea would be amazing!

[norbcodes]

maybe look into this?

https://pypi.org/project/distro/

[MF366-Coding]

Just remembered this now but even if this was doable it would still need sudo permissions.