[PLUG] Program fails to start

Richard C. Steffens rsteff at comcast.net
Mon Oct 17 20:10:30 UTC 2011


On 10/17/2011 12:09 PM, Rogan Creswick wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Richard C. Steffens
> <rsteff at comcast.net> wrote:
>> As mentioned yesterday my desktop croaked. Fortunately I had copied a
>> number of things from it to my recently upgraded laptop which is now
>> running Ubuntu 10.04, too.
> This is a fairly old version of Ubuntu 

But it is the version purported to have Long Term Support so us (more or
less) "ordinary" users can count on things working for a few years.

> - it's /possible/ you're
> running into a problem due to an incompatible version of Python: maybe
> you're running a newer version of transcribe that expects a newer
> python than what you have installed?

If it is somehow related to versions my guess is that it is an older
version of transcribe that got bit by some upgrade in python. Alas, I
have so far been unable to locate the source of the program on the
Internet today. My Googling has turned up all kinds of things that
aren't this program called transcribe. There's a music transcription
program called transcribe that dominates my search returns, now. I think
I used to have the python source code from back when I first tried to
use it and before I found the deb package. I'll have to try some other
search strings.

> I don't know how backports / LTS works for Ubuntu -- you may be just
> fine in that respect, but that came to mind.

Don't know what backports are all about.

Thanks for the ideas. They got me thinking about other search strings.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens





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