paperman on Linux Mint 20

[sjg20]

From: Thierry Chaverot

I've been looking for a replacement for paperport software for several years, and it was by chance that I discovered your very discreet paperman. From what I've read, it should be exactly what I'm looking for. Unfortunately, I can't manage to build it.

My configuration : Distribution : Linux Mint 20 Kernel : Linux 5.4.0-42-lowlatency (x86_64) Version : #46-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Fri Jul 10 01:43:58 UTC 2020 C Library : GNU C Library / (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.31-0ubuntu9) 2.31

I downloaded the tar.gz from there : https://github.com/sjg20/paperman/releases/tag/v1.0.1

I extracted the tar.gz here : /home/thierry/Téléchargements/paperman-1.0.1

As specified in the INSTALL, I did : thierry@MINT20WIN:~$ sudo apt-get install qtcreator g++ qt5-qmake libsane-dev libtiff5-dev cmake libpodofo-dev imagemagick tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng everything went normally, I didn't have any warnings or problems.

then, I did : thierry@MINT20WIN:~/Téléchargements/paperman-1.0.1$ ./configure Info: creating stash file /home/thierry/Téléchargements/paperman-1.0.1/.qmake.stash Project MESSAGE: Type 'make' to build paperman Project ERROR: Unknown module(s) in QT: core gui widgets printsupport xml

Then : thierry@MINT20WIN:~/Téléchargements/paperman-1.0.1$ make make: *** Pas de cible spécifiée et aucun makefile n'a été trouvé. Arrêt. (No target specified and no makefile was found. Stop.)

Then I tried : thierry@MINT20WIN:~/Téléchargements/paperman-1.0.1$ qmake Project MESSAGE: Type 'make' to build paperman Project ERROR: Unknown module(s) in QT: core gui widgets printsupport xml

I'm stuck here. Is there a solution?

Thanks in advance,

Thierry

[sjg20]

I have updated the INSTALL instructions to add qt5-default and libpoppler-qt5-dev so:

sudo apt-get install qt5-default libpoppler-qt5-dev

Can you please try again?

[Niaouli]

Great, it's OK now, I can launch paperman with the command line. But... I get a window where all sub-windows are empty :

and in the File menu from the menu bar I have only two choices, Print and Exit. I couldn't find any way to load a directory.

The result of the command line, when clicking on Exit :

thierry@MINT20WIN:~$ paperman qt5ct: using qt5ct plugin qt5ct: D-Bus global menu: no

and when exiting by a click on the x button :

thierry@MINT20WIN:~$ paperman qt5ct: using qt5ct plugin qt5ct: D-Bus global menu: no resetFilter dir not found QObject::killTimer(): Error: timer id 1 is not valid for object 0x563c8faef080 (Desktopview, ), timer has not been killed couldn't write maxdesk.ini

Thanks for your help.

[sjg20]

Please do read the INSTALL instructions all the way to the end:\

.. After you run it, right-click in the left window to add a paper repository with the 'Add repository' option. This should be the directory containing your paper files.

[Niaouli]

You are right, sorry for this.

When I try to remove a repository, nothing happens.

Very dangerous : Delete should not appear in the contextual menu because it can be confused with remove a repository and as it is a full delete, nothing goes to the recycle bin. Let a dedicated file manager do this job, at least you know what you are doing. Fortunately I tested this command with an empty directory...

Anyway, even when deleted, a repository remains in the repository list.