Guidance with installing OdfEdit

[AnsonleeXD]

Hi, new user here.
I am currently attempting to install and use OdfEdit on my MacBook Pro with Ubuntu 24.10 ARM desktop edition using Oracle Virtualbox 7.1.6. , to hopefully convert some HW files to GO.
I went on to terminal and installed pillow, lxml, audioplayer and sounddevice under a virtual environment. I used pip install OdfEdit==2.18 but all it said is

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tkinter (from odfedit) (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for tkinter

I also attempted to run python3 ./OdfEdit.py where I put the OdfEdit.py file from the src file into home and the following message popped up:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/al086/./OdfEdit.py", line 255, in
from audioplayer import AudioPlayer # install with : pip install audioplayer
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/al086/testpip/lib/python3.12/site-packages/audioplayer/init.py", line 12, in
from .audioplayer_linux import AudioPlayerLinux as AudioPlayer
File "/home/al086/testpip/lib/python3.12/site-packages/audioplayer/audioplayer_linux.py", line 7, in
import gi
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gi'

I am not great at the use of python and python-based applications, and this would be my first try on such installations. Any guidances for resolving these installing issues? Many thanks!

[eturpault]

tkinter is the library used by OdfEdit to manage its graphical user interface. It is natively embedded in the Python distributions. But it seems that tkinter is not installed correctly in your VirtualBox.
You could check in the terminal if tkinter is properly installed and which is its version with the command : python3 -m tkinter
It should open a window demonstrating a simple Tk interface, letting you know that tkinter is properly installed on your system, and also showing what version is installed.
You could reinstall tkinter to see if it resolves your issue with : apt-get install python3-tk

About AudioPlayer, it seems there is an installation issue with the gi library used by AudioPlayer. You can test the solution proposed here.

[AnsonleeXD]

Hmm, I have tested Tkinter and the window is showing up, with no errors whatsoever. But when I tried to install OdfEdit with pip3 install OdfEdit==2.18 again the same error message is popping up. Heres the full log:

(testpip) al086@ALsMacbookPro:~$ pip3 install OdfEdit==2.18
Collecting OdfEdit==2.18
Using cached OdfEdit-2.18-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (43 kB)
INFO: pip is looking at multiple versions of odfedit to determine which version is compatible with other requirements. This could take a while.
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tkinter (from odfedit) (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for tkinter

Also I have tried the first solution from your included link, since I am not in an Anaconda environment as suggested in the second answer from that forum. The code suggested are:

pip install vext
pip install vext.gi

I installed them sucessfully, but when I tried to run python3 ./OdfEdit.py again in terminal, the same exact issue showed up:

(testpip) al086@ALsMacbookPro:~$ python3 ./OdfEdit.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/al086/./OdfEdit.py", line 255, in
from audioplayer import AudioPlayer # install with : pip install audioplayer
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/al086/testpip/lib/python3.12/site-packages/audioplayer/init.py", line 12, in
from .audioplayer_linux import AudioPlayerLinux as AudioPlayer
File "/home/al086/testpip/lib/python3.12/site-packages/audioplayer/audioplayer_linux.py", line 7, in
import gi
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gi'

I've been stuck ever since. OdfEdit is still not showing.
As the Ubuntu version where the Linux binary is tested (Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS in Oracle VM VirtualBox) is different than mine (the newer Ubuntu 24.10 ARM desktop edition, not an LTS version) could this be the issue instead?
Any more guidance tips would be massively appreciated.

[eturpault]

You could try to install OdfEdit manualy recovering its files from https://github.com/GrandOrgue/OdfEdit/releases

[AnsonleeXD]

I tried directly opening the linux executable file, the one in OdfEdit-2.18-linux, but it displays 'Could not display "OdfEdit"' and listed 'there is no app for "executable"files.'
Any way to run the executable files in terminal? How do I run it, per se?
Thanks for any help!

[eturpault]

Have you allowed OdfEdit to be executed in Linux ? In the file explorer, right click on the OdfEdit executable, select Properties in the menu, then select the Permissions tab, then enable the checkbox "Allow executing file as program".

[AnsonleeXD]

Oh yeah I did that, but it gave out no responses when I click into it.

[eturpault]

"it gave out no responses when I click into it." do you mean when trying to run the Linux executable after having allowed its execution in the file explorer ?
One possible other solution : you recover the source code in the Releases page, you unzip the archive in a folder of your local storage, then you execute OdfEdit.py from this folder.
Personnaly I am testing OdfEdit in Linux using Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.0 for Windows and running Linux Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS.

[AnsonleeXD]

For the first point, yes.

For the second point:
After I unzipped the source code files I put the files into the Documents file. I then used the cd Documents command in terminal to change the directory to the Documents folder.
I used sudo chmod +x OdfEdit.py to try opening the file. This then showed up:

chmod: cannot access 'OdfEdit.py': No such file or directory

I then copied the OdfEdit.py file from the src file and pasted it directly within the Documents file. This time, it went on without issue, but when I attempted to run the file using sudo ./OdfEdit.py , it spat out the name, purpose and the all version history within terminal, but then gives out the following:

./OdfEdit.py: 224: APP_VERSION: not found
./OdfEdit.py: 225: RELEASE_DATE: not found
./OdfEdit.py: 227: DEV_MODE: not found
./OdfEdit.py: 228: LOG_HW2GO_drawstop: not found
./OdfEdit.py: 229: LOG_HW2GO_switch: not found
./OdfEdit.py: 230: LOG_HW2GO_keys_noise: not found
./OdfEdit.py: 231: LOG_HW2GO_windchest: not found
./OdfEdit.py: 232: LOG_HW2GO_manual: not found
./OdfEdit.py: 233: LOG_HW2GO_rank: not found
./OdfEdit.py: 234: LOG_HW2GO_perfo: not found
./OdfEdit.py: 235: LOG_wav_decode: not found
./OdfEdit.py: 237: import: not found
./OdfEdit.py: 238: import: not found
./OdfEdit.py: 239: import: not found
./OdfEdit.py: 240: import: not found
./OdfEdit.py: 241: import: not found
./OdfEdit.py: 245: from: not found
./OdfEdit.py: 246: from: not found
./OdfEdit.py: 248: import: not found
./OdfEdit.py: 249: import: not found
./OdfEdit.py: 250: import: not found
./OdfEdit.py: 251: from: not found
./OdfEdit.py: 253: Syntax error: "(" unexpected (expecting "then")

I also attempted to run the file under python3 ./OdfEdit , but it produced the same problem I mentioned a few posts before:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/al086/Documents/./OdfEdit.py", line 255, in
from audioplayer import AudioPlayer # install with : pip install audioplayer
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/al086/Documents/testpip/lib/python3.12/site-packages/audioplayer/init.py", line 12, in
from .audioplayer_linux import AudioPlayerLinux as AudioPlayer
File "/home/al086/Documents/testpip/lib/python3.12/site-packages/audioplayer/audioplayer_linux.py", line 7, in
import gi
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gi'

The same "gi" problem showed up.

[eturpault]

Running the file under python3 ./OdfEdit was what I was meaning by "execute OdfEdit.py". So we come back to the audioplayer import issue. The good news is that you have not had issue with tkinter which is imported before audioplayer in OdfEdit. You can try to install or reinstall gi with :
sudo apt install python3-gi
sudo apt-get --reinstall install python3-gi

[AnsonleeXD]

I reinstalled gi with your above line, but unfortunately still, it still showed the ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gi' line.

[AnsonleeXD]

Update:
Somehow I got it running natively on MacOS using the windows .exe file and under wine stable (wine 9.0).
It loaded up the screen with no fuss.
Given that I had installed the python libraries in my MacOS terminal.
Thanks for your help anyways! I’ll see how this works out.

[eturpault]

Great news that it is working with wine in MacOS, this is good to know !
As python is now installed in your MacOS environment, you should be able to execute the file OdfEdit.py in the MacOs terminal, without using the .exe file (after having maybe installed some missing libraries with pip). As far as I know OdfEdit.py has never been executed in native MacOS environment, but it should work as MacOS and Linux are both based on Unix.