pip install pip-requires.txt fails on UoW

[lorenjerickson]

This may be a non-starter, and if so that's okay I guess. I'm trying to install and run ly2video on UoW (Ubuntu on Windows), which is based on trusty-tahir. All the dependencies installed fine via apt-get install. I also installed latest lilypond without errors.

I got to the step of installing the patched python-midi via pip-requires.txt and got the following error.

loren@OFFICE-PC:/mnt/c/Users/loren/Downloads/ly2video/ly2video-master$ pip install --user -r pip-requires.txt
Downloading/unpacking PIL==1.1.7 (from -r pip-requires.txt (line 1))
  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement PIL==1.1.7 (from -r pip-requires.txt (line 1))
Cleaning up...
No distributions at all found for PIL==1.1.7 (from -r pip-requires.txt (line 1))
Storing debug log for failure in /tmp/tmpaGhCP5

I'm not a python dev, and have no idea what this means. So I tried installing python-midi via pip directly, figuring I could live with a "significant temp calculation bug" just to see this work, and it did install.

The ly2video install, which happened very quickly, also seemed to go okay. Nothing obvious in the output. When I run the app ./ly2video --help, I get the following:

loren@OFFICE-PC:/usr/local/bin$ ./ly2video.py --help
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./ly2video.py", line 44, in <module>
    from ly.tokenize import MusicTokenizer, Tokenizer
ImportError: No module named ly.tokenize

Looks like I have both Pythin 2.7 and 3.4 installed. Not sure if that's relevant.

Any ideas on how to get this to work?

[aspiers]

I'm not a python dev, and have no idea what this means.

It means that ly2video requires version 1.1.7 of PIL, but that doesn't seem to be available to install via pip. I have no idea how UoW works but that problem is nothing to do with ly2video so you'll have to rely on help from the UoW and PIL communities.

When I run the app ./ly2video --help, I get the following:

Hmm, it seems that there's probably a bug in the README.md. If you've installed it by following the instructions, i.e. via

python2 setup.py install --root=INSTALLATION_DIR

then ly2video should be installed under INSTALLATION_DIR, so you need to run it from there in order to pick up the correct libraries required. You can't just run it directly from the source repo.

But until you have PIL installed, there's no point trying to run it, because PIL is absolutely required in order to generate video frames.

[aspiers]

Hmm, I just noticed this same issue for me when trying to install PIL from pip instead of via rpm. pip search shows that only 1.1.6 is available on PyPI, which is bizarre ...

[aspiers]

Also, PIL was last released in 2009, so it's a total dead-end :-(

[aspiers]

We switched to Pillow so this should be solved now.