As stated in the " Is there a way to specify an empty symbol? " thread. my computer crashed and I had to reinstall Ubuntu 20.04.1 Now Gramps simply does not work properly. first of all it says fontconfig is not installed. I have verified and re-verified, it is in fact installed. also a fresh Ubunt…

I assume you’ve done this once before? Again, via the terminal… sudo cd /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gramps/gen/utils use pwd to confirm that you are indeed now in that directory. pwd If you are where you’re meant to be then preserve your existing symbols.py file. sudo cp symbols.py symbols.…

That’s weird. Maybe they are doing something unusual with permissions? Open up a terminal and type ls -l / then try ls -l /usr If you still get nothing, put sudo in the front of them.

[image] Glenn: ls -l / me@me-Latitude-E5510:~/Desktop$ ls -l / total 2097232 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Sep 10 21:43 bin → usr/bin drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 11 00:38 boot drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 10 21:47 cdrom drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4460 Sep…

so, using that I hunted again, still can’t find my symbols.py file

Okay /usr exists What’s the file you are looking for? Something in … /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gramps/gen/utils ?

[image] Wildkat: symbols.py I can’t find symbols.py on https://packages.ubuntu.com so what supplies symbols.py What’s it used for? Do you have a backup copy of it?

it is a file specific to gramps, and yes I have multiple copies of it, including the one I have modified, but I can not figure out where to put it :slightly_frowning_face:

[image] Wildkat: In linux it is in a seperate folder from the .gramps folder…the path is /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gramps/gen/utils edit, I actually have the utils folder saved as a backup in case I messed up my symbols.py file Scrolling back in this thread you mention that it belongs …

no, that doesn’t exist either as it is in the usr file that is either not there or not accessible (I’m not sure which)

Updated w/ screenshots Gramps does not recognize fontconfig is installed

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Wildkat September 11, 2020, 7:58am 23

this is the thread where I learned how to change the file

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Updated w/ screenshots Gramps does not recognize fontconfig is installed

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