#86 metamorphose will not open in fc22

[dan]

i put run from source but i got it from the fedora repository. metamorphose will not open in fc22. i click it and it just dies. i dont see any errors or anything in logs so i am not sure what else to say.

[dan]

an update, i realized i can command line control it too. it says it needs wxpython 2.8 and the version i have is 3.0. is there anything i can do?

[Michael Baryshnikov]

Same behaviour on Leap 42.1. I click it is going to start them dies :(

[J. Reis]

This post is laughably old & I don't actually have a solution to offer presently. That said, I do believe I know what the issue is (or likely may be) and am aware of some possible solutions. Since this project offers a unique combination of capabilities (discrete ordered operations + exif & audio tag support + undo, etc.) that aren't available in alternatives that I'm aware of; I'm going to ignore the usual etiquette and risk a little spamming.

In short, metamorphose2 depends on an old version of wxPython that is not longer available on most operating systems. Whether this can be solved at compile time is unclear (to neophyte me) since python-wxgtk seems to be a dependency of the binary package, I'm assuming not. In any case (compile time dependency, or something expected to be provided by the base system at execution time) I believe the compatible 2.8 version of wxPython can be bundled with metamorphose2 to make a self-contained executable package via something like AppImage or Flatpak.

For myself, I have a bit to learn before I can even test this, but someone more knowledgable might be able to implement this in a matter of minutes and the result would be an atomic package which should work for folks a long time into the future without any additional dev support.

I've set up a new ticket --here-- in the hopes of consolidating any efforts related to this issue.

Justin R.