Re: Getting Frescobaldi to use my poppler

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno ven 3 gen 2020 alle 09:28, Knute Snortum <address@hidden> 
ha scritto:
> I noticed that the minimum version for poppler was 0.82 for
> Frescobaldi 3.1 and I didn't have a package that high, so I built
> poppler from source.  It's installed in /usr/local/.
>
> But when I run Frescobaldi and look in the versions tab of the About
> window, it is still using the old poppler.  So I thought I would
> rebuild python-poppler-qt5.  But when I try to build it I get this
> error:
>
> $ python setup.py build
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup.py", line 42, in <module>
>     import sipdistutils
> ImportError: No module named sipdistutils
> $ apt list sip*
> Listing... Done
> sip-dev/eoan,now 4.19.18+dfsg-1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
>
> Should I continue to try to build python-poppler-qt5?  How do I get
> Frescobaldi to use the newer poppler?
>
> I'm running Ubuntu 19.10.

See this issue:
https://github.com/frescobaldi/python-poppler-qt5/issues/14#issuecomment-506735413

Try this:
wget 
https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/hg/sip/raw-file/79f89221765d/sipdistutils.py
mv sipdistutils.py path/to/lib/python3.X/site-packages/