Linux install instructions

[mael-lenoc]

Hi,
Thanks a lot for all your work.
I've been able to install noScribe and noScribeEdit on linux (ubuntu).

Here are the steps I followed : I hope it might help some people (feel free to edit/reuse as you want).
FYI, I've had to make a few very minor edits in order for the two softwares to work well together. (I might make it cleaner and submit pull requests at some points...)

Installation Instructions:

Note : The procedure below uses a python virtual environment
Make sure to have python and pip installed
Download and extract the latest NoScribe sourcecode from https://github.com/kaixxx/noScribe/releases
Download and extract the latest NoScribeEdit sourcecode from https://github.com/kaixxx/noScribeEditor
Put the noScribeEditor inside the NoScribe folder you dowloaded previously, and rename the noScribeEditor folder as noScribeEdit
Open a terminal and cd in the NoScribe directory
Enter the following command lines :

	python3 -m venv .venv #you may need to replace python3 by python, depending on the version of python installed)
	source .venv/bin/activate
	pip install -r environments/requirements_linux.txt
	pip install -r noScribeEdit/environments/requirements_macOS.txt #Yes it says mac, but there is no linux requirements file at the moment

Download all the files from https://huggingface.co/guillaumekln/faster-whisper-large-v2/tree/main to the models/faster-whisper-large-v2 to the models/faster-whisper-large-v2 within your noScribe folder

Download all the files from https://huggingface.co/guillaumekln/faster-whisper-small/tree/main to the models/faster-whisper-small to the models/faster-whisper-small within your noScribe folder

Edit the noScribe.py file as follow in order to be able to open noScribeEditor from noScribe
Edit line 566 so that it reads
program = os.path.join(app_dir, 'noScribeEdit', "noScribeEdit.py")
Edit line 578 so that it reads
Popen(['python3', program, file], **kwargs) #might need to be python instead of python3 depending on your environment
Edit line 580 so that it reads
Popen(['python3', program], **kwargs)

Launching noScribe :

Open a terminal and cd into the directory where the noScribe sources are located
Activate your virtual environment with
source .venv/bin/activate
Run
python3 noScribe.py

HiDPI issue :

If you have a HiDpi screen, noScribe window and font might be very small.
You can add the following lines to the noScribe.py file after line 70

ctk.set_widget_scaling(2)  # widget dimensions and text size / adjust the value as you see fit
ctk.set_window_scaling(2)  # window geometry dimension / adjust the value as you see fit

Sidenote : Sometimes, when you select a filename for saving, the "." is missing before the extension by default and this throws an error. Just manually add the dot.

[kaixxx]

Thank you very much for these detailed instructions! I will link to this post from the main Readme.

[mael-lenoc]

You're welcome.
And FYI, I've also encountered a "segmentation fault" error, but using the fix suggested here #75 works.

[kaixxx]

I've also encountered a "segmentation fault" error, but using the fix suggested here #75 works.

Thank you for reminding me of this problem. As you can see in the discussion about the pull request, I had some questions, but the original author never got back to me. Could you help me with that (especially the second bullet point in question 2 - checking self.log_textbox.winfo_exists() as a simple solution)?

[mael-lenoc]

Hi,
I'm not sure I fully understand how the code suggested by the original author works, but I've tried the "simple solution" that you suggested (i.e. replacing if where != 'file': by if where != 'file' and self.log_textbox.winfo_exists(): ) and this does NOT work. The segfault error still happens.
It seems to me that the following 3 lines in the original author post are what really matter
# Ensure this is done on the main thread
if not self.log_textbox.winfo_exists():
return # Exit if widget does not exist