Errors building 6.0 beta2 from source

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I just tried to install an upgrade of Gramps6.0-Beta2 from source, after first ‘remove’ 5.2.4 from the deb package manager and then doing a ‘purge’.

I first made a clone of my VM and all was good with the old 5.2.4 on the clone and I figured that it was about time I needed to play with the only ‘officially’ supported linux upgrade method (i.e. tar.gz) first before committing!

I got quite a few errors but given that it is my first time installing from source, I don’t know if this would be the right place to report them. Some of these might be pilot error as well. Can you confirm if it is the proper forum, please?

brian

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Please do discuss your installation error building 6.0b2 from source here.

Moved to a fresh thread but still linked from the old one.

When the issues are isolated, we can create a bug report from the discussion’s content.

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first I downloaded the package to my Vm which is Mint Xia running on Virtualbox.

  • then I extracted it to a new directory

  • cd to the new directory

  • run the command ~/Downloads/gramps-6.0.0-beta2$ sudo python3 setup.py build as per the INSTALL instructions

  • run the command ~/Downloads/gramps-6.0.0-beta2$ sudo python3 setup.py install as per the INSTALL file instructions

  • Now I run ~/Downloads/gramps-6.0.0-beta2$ python3 Gramps.py

  • receive back

2025-03-02 13:34:29.755: WARNING: grampslocale.py: line 391: No Localedir provided, unable to find translations
2025-03-02 13:34:29.758: WARNING: grampslocale.py: line 449: Missing or invalid localedir None; no translations will be available.
2025-03-02 13:34:29.758: WARNING: grampslocale.py: line 391: No Localedir provided, unable to find translations
2025-03-02 13:34:29.761: WARNING: grampslocale.py: line 449: Missing or invalid localedir None; no translations will be available.
2025-03-02 13:34:29.762: WARNING: grampslocale.py: line 391: No Localedir provided, unable to find translations
2025-03-02 13:34:29.766: WARNING: grampslocale.py: line 449: Missing or invalid localedir None; no translations will be available.
2025-03-02 13:34:29.766: WARNING: grampslocale.py: line 391: No Localedir provided, unable to find translations
2025-03-02 13:34:29.769: WARNING: grampslocale.py: line 449: Missing or invalid localedir None; no translations will be available.
  • I figured that I had a problem with my locale so I did locale -a and noticed that en_US.utf8 was missing, so I ran;
  • $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
    Generating locales…
  • en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date

retry ~/Downloads/gramps-6.0.0-beta2$ python3 Gramps.py
and get this

2025-03-02 15:44:46.151: WARNING: _manager.py: line 326: Plugin error (from 'filter+'): No module named 'gramps.gen.filters.rules.family._memberbase'
2025-03-02 15:44:46.154: ERROR: grampsapp.py: line 188: Unhandled exception
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/brian/Downloads/gramps-6.0.0-beta2/gramps/gui/grampsgui.py", line 768, in do_activate
    Gramps(self.argparser, self)
  File "/home/brian/Downloads/gramps-6.0.0-beta2/gramps/gui/grampsgui.py", line 574, in __init__
    self._vm = ViewManager(app, dbstate, config.get("interface.view-categories"))
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/brian/Downloads/gramps-6.0.0-beta2/gramps/gui/viewmanager.py", line 236, in __init__
    self.do_reg_plugins(self.dbstate, self.uistate)
  File "/home/brian/Downloads/gramps-6.0.0-beta2/gramps/gui/viewmanager.py", line 613, in do_reg_plugins
    error = CLIManager.do_reg_plugins(self, dbstate, uistate, rescan=rescan)
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/brian/Downloads/gramps-6.0.0-beta2/gramps/cli/grampscli.py", line 334, in do_reg_plugins
    self._pmgr.reg_plugins(USER_PLUGINS, dbstate, uistate, load_on_reg=True)
  File "/home/brian/Downloads/gramps-6.0.0-beta2/gramps/gen/plug/_manager.py", line 224, in reg_plugins
    r_class = getattr(mod, plugin.ruleclass)
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'HasEventBasePlus'

Then, prior to starting from scratch again, I checked for an uninstall option in the setup.py and there is not one apparently.

doing ~$ gramps gives

/usr/local/bin/gramps:4: DeprecationWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API. See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html
  __import__('pkg_resources').run_script('gramps==6.0.0b2', 'gramps')
ResourcePath.ERROR: Unable to determine resource path

I can go in and ‘surgically’ remove most of the bits and pieces but I wanted to post this message with as much content as possible first.

I have been using Gramps over the years, but always with Ubuntu and more recently with Mint dpkg process and not seen the problem with my en_US locale before so I wonder if it may be related to all the new translations just added and the INSTALL script needing to be updated, perhaps.

More likely it is ‘finger-trouble’ and inexperience, but I would like to begin using the install-from-source process going forward. Sure would like to see an uninstall option though in setup.py.

Any suggestions welcome, as usual! TIA

brian

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Bug 13676 seems relevant to the error you’re running into.