Public bug reported: Hello, I'm one of the upstream maintainers of PDF Arranger and we got some complaints from ubuntu users which were unable to start the apt/deb package in ubuntu 22.04. This is most likely due to incompatible pikepdf versions which the users installed via pip. To mitigate this, I suggest you patch the /usr/bin/pdfarranger entry script to add a `-s` flag (better yet `-sP` as soon as the Python version supports it) to the python interpreter call in the first line (shebang). This should prevent python to load incompatible module versions from the home directory. I do not have a solutions for users which installed stuff via "sudo pip", I guess they just made a mistake using their admin privileges which we can not work around.
From my point of view it would be much better if users would get more recent versions of pikepdf (>= 6 should be enough) and PDF Arranger (the newer the better) but that might not be possible with a LTS version. (We got a few bug reports for stuff that has been fixed for a long time upstream and newer PDF Arranger versions are compatible with newer pikepdf versions users might accidentally install.) Thanks for your work as package mantainer and let me know if I can be of assistance. David To the reports: https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger/discussions/1017 ** Affects: pdfarranger (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2077836 Title: PDF Arranger fails to start due to user site packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pdfarranger/+bug/2077836/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
