Unable to open simba gui

[jacobk14]

I have install Simba using pip install simba-uw-no-tf, but when I tried launching Simba, I got the traceback below. I know this it is successfully installed because I opened the directory in my terminal (also shown below). I am using a Linux virtual machine is that changes anything.

[sgoldenlab]

Hi @jacobk14 - first thanks for trying SimBA! However, for the moment, we only support Windows use. This is a known issue with the encoded windows path preventing SimBA to boot on Linux / MacOS. Even if you do get past this specific issue, there are many path readings in SimBA that are designed for Windows making it difficult to work with in Linux at the moment.

Please see these closed issues for some related info:

#37

#39

For now, I recommend getting hold of a Windows machine and run SimBA on it. You mention you are running Linux on a virtual machine. If this happens to be on native Windows, I'd suggest exiting the virtual machine and installing/running SimBA in native Windows.

[sgoldenlab]

Hi @jacobk14 - I've uploaded a Linux compatible version here - it's very much work in development but most of the function (excluding some of the video pre-processing functions) should work in Linux. If you do decide to try it out and encounter some bugs it would be great if you report them so I can fix them asap

pip install simba-uw-tf-dev

[akh8zm]

Hi! First, thanks so much @sgoldenlab for the work in progress Linux version! I'm trying to use it now and running into a few kinks regarding install on an Ubuntu virtual machine (through MATE) when I try to run simba. The first two were straightforward enough: didn't find module named numba so I ran pip install numba; then couldn't find the file TheGoldenLab.png, so I manually found the file and changed the name from TheGoldenLab.PNG to lowercase.
Now I'm getting another error after the GoldenLab image pops up:
_tkinter.TclError: couldn't recognize data in image file "/sfs/qumulo/qhome/akh8zm/.conda/envs/simba-linux/lib/python3.6/site-packages/simba/golden.png"
I've verified that the file does exist and the properties look ok to me:


Not sure about next steps. Some issues I've found online say that tkinter can only support GIFs but that would require changing the filename.