Variety crashes on starting

[sachin srivastava]

Variety Version: 0.6.5-0~600~201708221925~ubuntu16.04.1

Desktop Environment: Unity

Ubuntu: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS

Variety is crashing when trying to start it.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/variety", line 38, in <module>
    import variety
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/variety/__init__.py", line 111, in <module>
    from variety import VarietyWindow
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/variety/VarietyWindow.py", line 22, in <module>
    from variety.FacebookHelper import FacebookHelper
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/variety/FacebookHelper.py", line 55, in <module>
    from variety.Util import Util
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/variety/Util.py", line 16, in <module>
    import bs4
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bs4/__init__.py", line 30, in <module>
    from .builder import builder_registry, ParserRejectedMarkup
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bs4/builder/__init__.py", line 314, in <module>
    from . import _html5lib
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bs4/builder/_html5lib.py", line 70, in <module>
    class TreeBuilderForHtml5lib(html5lib.treebuilders._base.TreeBuilder):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '_base'

[James Lu (jlu5)]

This is an issue with the BeautifulSoup version in xenial, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/variety/+bug/1645572. A workaround might be run 'pip install
beautifulsoup4', which will install a version of bs4 compatible with newer html5lib versions.