[BUG] [WARNING] Running from source on Linux Mint will break Mintinstall

[Tsoccerguy3]

Affects linux Mint KDE 18.1 x64

There is a bug in Pillow that if you follow the steps on the opening page you will corrupt the python libraries required by Mintinstall and Software Manager will no longer work . Good luck trying to find what files get replaced and the changed cfg files .
https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/808907

`Result from running gksu mintinstall

add_categories took 1.234 ms build_matched_packages took 0.218 ms add_packages took 6111.321 ms add_reviews took 1402.498 ms OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_121-8u121-b13-0ubuntu1.16.04.2-b13) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.121-b13, mixed mode) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintinstall/mintinstall.py", line 1930, in Application() File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintinstall/mintinstall.py", line 59, in wrapper res = func(*arg) File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintinstall/mintinstall.py", line 617, in init sans26 = ImageFont.truetype(self.FONT, 26) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL/ImageFont.py", line 239, in truetype return FreeTypeFont(font, size, index, encoding) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL/ImageFont.py", line 128, in init self.font = core.getfont(font, size, index, encoding) IOError: cannot open resource`

[LaChal]

Sorry for the late answer.

You can try to install the Python dependencies for the user only using pip or easy_install (provided in the 'setuptools' package). This will not corrupt you system libraries. This is the way the installer try to install the dependencies.