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EasyABC had been working fine under Manjaro Linux, but after a recent Manjaro update it fails to open. I tried a clean re-install of EasyABC but it failed and I get the following terminal message:

[ray@ray-dell ~]$ easyabc
14:20:39: Warning: Mismatch between the program and library build versions detected.
The library used 3.0 (wchar_t,compiler with C++ ABI 1014,wx containers,compatible with 2.8),
and wxPython used 3.0 (wchar_t,compiler with C++ ABI 1016,wx containers,compatible with 2.8).
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/easyabc/easy_abc.py", line 109, in <module>
    from xml2abc_interface import xml_to_abc, abc_to_xml
  File "/opt/easyabc/xml2abc_interface.py", line 5, in <module>
    import abc2xml
  File "/opt/easyabc/abc2xml.py", line 17, in <module>
    from pyparsing import Word, OneOrMore, Optional, Literal, NotAny, MatchFirst
  File "/opt/easyabc/pyparsing.py", line 943, in <module>
    collections.MutableMapping.register(ParseResults)
AttributeError: module 'collections' has no attribute 'MutableMapping'
[ray@ray-dell ~]$

I raised it on the Manjaro forum but got no solution. Any help appreciated.

Ray Chandler - 2022-01-10

Comment from Manjaro team:
"It must be adapted to Python 3.10. The collections module does not provide MutableMappings anymore. It was deprecated a while ago, the developers of EasyABC must change their code."

Any chance of this happening?

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J.W. de Jong - 2022-01-12

Hello Ray,

In a next version of EasyABC this will be fixed.

For the time being you could try the following:
cd /opt/easyabc
rm pyparsing.py
sudo apt install python3-pyparsing
python3 easy_abc.py

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Ray Chandler - 2022-01-13

Thanks JW - great news that this will be fixed in the next version.
EasyABC is an excellent facility and I'm looking forward to getting it back.
In the meantime I've tried your temporary fix above and it removed the old pyparsing.py but at the install command I get "Error: target not found: python3-pyparsing".
EasyABC now opens (it didn't before this) but the "Musical score" panel remains empty and doesn't show the tune of the abc file below it. In the "ABC code" panel I can edit the tune, transpose it, etc, but nothing appears in the score panel.

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J.W. de Jong - 2022-01-13

You could also use pip to install pyparsing.
pip install pyparsing

Some distributions still have both Python 2 and Python 3. In that case use:
pip3 install pyparsing

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Ray Chandler - 2022-01-14

pyparsing is installed, but the problem remains:
EasyABC opens but the "Musical score" panel remains empty and doesn't show the tune of the abc file below it. In the "ABC code" panel I can edit the tune, transpose it, etc, but nothing appears in the score panel.

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- Laurie Savage - 2025-07-23
  
  Hi Ray, did you ever solve this problem? I'm having the same issue on Fedora 42
  
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  - Laurie Savage - 2025-07-24
    
    I gave up on Fedora and switched to Mint. Everything works again.
    L
    
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    - Bodo - 2025-07-24
      
      Nevertheless it would be good to find out what caused the problem. If it is related to a system update, users of other distributions might face a similar problem in future.
      But it could also be an incompatibility between system packages and 3rd-party packages, e.g. those from Guido Gonsato's page.
      For further analysis we might need the version numbers of all related packages.
      
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Bodo - 2025-07-23

Did you try the newest version from
https://github.com/jwdj/EasyABC ?

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- Laurie Savage - 2025-07-23
  
  Yes, that's the version I'm running with Guido's latest binaries, the
  latest wxPython stuff and the wx Toolkit, Ghostscript (which I assume does
  the rendering along with abcm2ps). It's disheartening. Laurie
  
  On Wednesday 23 July 2025 16:38:52 (+10:00), Bodo wrote:
  
  Did you try the newest version from
  https://github.com/jwdj/EasyABC ?
  
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Dave Royal - 2025-07-23

Please can you post a link to where you downloaded 'Guido's latest binaries'.
See comment below.

Several of us are successfully running EasyABC on Linux from the python sources on github, which are a newer than the released version 1.3.8.7. If you want to try that you might find this helpful:
https://github.com/jwdj/easyabc/issues/126
No Fedora instructions yet, but probably similar to SuSE.

Edited to add:
I discovered that abcnotation.com says there are Linux binaries on Guido Gonzato's ABC Plus page. But there aren't.
https://abcnotation.com/software#EasyABC
https://abcplus.sourceforge.net/#EasyABC
They seem to have been removed in 2024, perhaps on the official release of v1.3.8.7 in September. I'm unaware of any released EasyABC Linux packages for v1.3.8.7.

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- Laurie Savage - 2025-07-23
  
  Thanks Dave, I'll chase that up but I'm starting to despair! I'm having no
  problems rendering ABC fragments in Chordpro, so I'm puzzled. The page with
  the binaries is https://abcplus.sourceforge.net/#EasyABC maintained by
  Guido Gonzato, Ph.D. Laurie
  
  On Wednesday 23 July 2025 20:48:06 (+10:00), Dave Royal wrote:
  
  Please can you post a link to where you downloaded 'Guido's latest
  binaries'.
  
  Several of us are successfully running EasyABC on Linux from the python
  sources on github, which are a newer than the released version 1.3.8.7. If
  you want to try that you might find this helpful:
  https://github.com/jwdj/easyabc/issues/126
  No Fedora instructions yet, but probably similar to SuSE.
  
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