Subliminal does not work in Ubuntu 18.04
Answer that works not only for Ubuntu 18.04, Bionic but also any release with pip
installed
The problem appears to be an incompatibility between the latest python stevedore
package and guessit
, as reported in the Debian Bug Report Logs
The solution would be to install an appropriate version of stevedore
from the PyPi Repository, in order to do that
- Uninstall the existing packages that you've obtained from apt by using
sudo apt-get purge -y python3-stevedore
- Install the PyPi version of subliminal with the appropriate version of stevedore by using
sudo pip3 install subliminal stevedore==1.19.1
Now running subliminal
from the terminal will let it run as usual:
argparse
is now part of Python2 and Python3, but subliminal
depends on python3-stevedore
and this package contains the entry argparse
in requires.txt
. You can check this with:
Vivid
cat /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/stevedore-1.3.0.egg-info/requires.txt
Wily
cat /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/stevedore-1.5.0.egg-info/requires.txt
The solution is a dirty hack, remove the line:
Vivid
sudo sed -i.bak '/argparse/d' /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/stevedore-1.3.0.egg-info/requires.txt
Wily
sudo sed -i.bak '/argparse/d' /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/stevedore-1.5.0.egg-info/requires.txt
For Bionic (18.04) the above works but take into account the stevedore version is higher. It can be checked with:
ls -l /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/
and then search for the stevedore-* folder. In my case:
sudo sed -i.bak '/argparse/d' /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/stevedore-1.28.0.egg-info/requires.txt