Re: Missing application resources when run in one Linux distro but not another

Eli Schwartz <[email protected]> Sun, 22 Mar 2020 13:44:11 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.python.pyqt-pykde
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On 3/22/20 1:12 PM, Damon Lynch wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 12:23 PM Eli Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Is this actually your problem, by the way? Or do you only need
>> ${qtlibdir}/plugins/imageformats/libqsvg.so in order to support QImages
>> in the svg format, which would be indirectly satisfied by
>> python3-pyqt5.qtsvg simply due to depending on libqt5svg5?
>>
>> It's more likely that packages which explicitly make use of svg resource
>> files need to depend on the right image plugin to handle those files,
>> totally unrelated to python.
>>
> 
> You're absolutely right Eli, thank you! (And thanks also to Maurizio
> and David). The package libqt5svg5 needed to be installed, not
> python3-pyqt5.qtsvg. I got completely bamboozled by the two of them.
> My code does not import the PyQt5.QtSvg module.

Happy to help!

It looks like the Arch Linux package doesn't draw this in (though
qt5-svg is an optdepends of qt5-base which may or may not help).

So I've pointed the maintainer at this thread and asked him to add it to
our packaging.

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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