SongWrite crashes before it even opens

[Aatcman]

I just installed songwrite from the software center.

When I try to run it from the launcher, it just sits there and does nothing.

If i try to run it from the command line, i get "struct.error: byte format requires -128 <= number <= 127"

I installed timidity before I installed this - was that the wrong order or something?

Thanks!!!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: songwrite 0.14-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.28-generic 3.0.17
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Feb 16 11:57:21 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: songwrite
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-10 (98 days ago)

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

I get the same error in Ubuntu Precise/12.04 . I'll try and work on packaging songwrite2 in a PPA, but I'm not the greatest packager, so no promises. You can probably build songwrite2 from source if you know how to do things like that.

[Aatcman (aatcman)]

Dave,

No, I don't know how to build from source...  If you could tell me where to get the songwrite2 source code and how to build from it, I'd like to learn.....

Thanks!!

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 From: Dave Lentz <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 12:51 PM
Subject: [Bug 933591] Re: SongWrite crashes before it even opens

I get the same error in Ubuntu Precise/12.04 . I'll try and work on
packaging songwrite2 in a PPA, but I'm not the greatest packager, so no
promises. You can probably build songwrite2 from source if you know how
to do things like that.

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Title:
  SongWrite crashes before it even opens

Status in “songwrite” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I just installed songwrite from the software center.

  When I try to run it from the launcher, it just sits there and does
  nothing.

  If i try to run it from the command line, i get "struct.error: byte
  format requires -128 <= number <= 127"

  I installed timidity before I installed this - was that the wrong
  order or something?

  Thanks!!!

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: songwrite 0.14-8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.28-generic 3.0.17
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Feb 16 11:57:21 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: songwrite
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-10 (98 days ago)

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[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

For anyone looking to build songwrite2, these commands should work. I'm not sure what dependencies are needed, so if you encounter an error, it's probably because you're missing some package.

sudo apt-get install python-all-dev
cd ~/
mkdir songwrite2
cd songwrite2/
wget http://download.gna.org/songwrite/EditObj2-0.4.tar.gz
tar xzf EditObj2-0.4.tar.gz
cd EditObj2-0.4/
sudo python setup.py install
cd ../
wget http://download.gna.org/songwrite/Songwrite2-0.4.1.tar.gz
tar xzf Songwrite2-0.4.1.tar.gz
cd Songwrite2-0.4.1/
sudo python setup.py install