Re: Frecobaldi 2 Mac OS X install guide

[Andrew Bernard]

Greetings,

On 6/06/13 10:13 AM, Tim McNamara wrote:
> Installing Frescobaldi remains one of the singularly frustrating interludes of 
> my computing life.  I cannot figure out how anyone gets a damned thing done 
> using Linux/BSD with all the asinine dependency issues, even with package 
> managers.  Installing any piece of software is a voyage of the damned rather 
> than a simple download and double-click to launch.
Well, I can sympathise with your frustration, but that's not exactly 
accurate. Proper Linux distros such as Debian have very sophisticated 
package management via apt that handle all required dependencies and are 
at a high stage of maturity. The issue here is that although Mac's are 
great - I am typing on my dear macbookpro 17 inch, and although they are 
built on a derivative of BSD UNIX, they lack the package management 
capabilities of most Linux systems, as they are not conceived of by 
Apple as full UNIX systems for end users.  I have not had any success 
getting frescobaldi to install using the mac built-in version of python 
and so on. It appears the only way to make this all work is to use the 
macports system, as mentioned earlier in this thread. Apart from 
providing the right versions of the software you require, it does indeed 
have a dependency system for pretty much all of the items.
> Despite installing Python, QT4, a bunch of dependencies that don't even make 
> sense, and every other doggone item on the list of things to install and 
> configure, Frescobaldi still cannot connect to Poppler so that I can 
> conveniently see the rendered PDF file.  The crux of the matter finally seems 
> to be the unholy alliance that is SIP:
>
> [tim ~/Desktop/Downloads/python-poppler-qt4-0.16.3]$ python setup.py build
> running build
> running build_ext
> building 'popplerqt4' extension
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/sip -I 
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/share/sip -t POPPLER_V0_20_0 
> -c build/temp.macosx-10.6-intel-2.7 -b 
> build/temp.macosx-10.6-intel-2.7/poppler-qt4.sbf -I 
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/share/sip/PyQt4 -x VendorID 
> -t WS_MACX -x PyQt_NoPrintRangeBug -t Qt_4_8_0 -x Py_v3 -g poppler-qt4.sip
> sip: Deprecation warning: poppler-qt4.sip:1: %Module version number should be 
> specified using the 'version' argument
> sip: Unable to find file "QtCore/QtCoremod.sip"
> error: command '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/sip' 
> failed with exit status 1
I mentioned earlier in this thread that my experience was that the 
instructions are missing the installation of sip. I had to use macports 
to install sip. I believe this needs to be added to the set of steps. 
After installing py27-sip, you will be able to proceed I reckon.

HTH

Andrew