I used following incantation to install this on my 64bit kubuntu 12.04.1 system
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:andrewsomething/typecatcher
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install typecatcher
And then tried to launch it from the same xterm and this is what I see.
$ typecatcher
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/overrides/Gtk.py:391: Warning: g_object_set_property: construct property "type" for object `Window' can't be set after construction
Gtk.Window.__init__(self, type=type, **kwds)
(typecatcher:4547): Gtk-WARNING **: Unknown property: GtkEntry.input-hints
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/typecatcher", line 47, in <module>
typecatcher.main()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/typecatcher/__init__.py", line 42, in main
window = TypeCatcherWindow.TypeCatcherWindow()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/typecatcher_lib/Window.py", line 48, in __new__
new_object.finish_initializing(builder)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/typecatcher/TypeCatcherWindow.py", line 53, in finish_initializing
htmlfile = html_font_view()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/typecatcher/html_preview.py", line 40, in html_font_view
con_icon_uri = con_info.get_filename()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_filename'
I'm assuming that this is because you don't have any GNOME icon themes installed since your using KDE. Maybe I'll need to add a hard dependency on gnome-icon-theme. Could you try installing that package, and see if it resolves the issue?
Thanks!