Mnemosyne and QT

EO · 2010-10-10 15:38:39

Hello,

I am having some problems with my flashcard trainer MNEMOSYNE. Any help is much appreciated!!!

Yesterday I updated with :

 sudo pacman -Syu

and saw that there is an qt update but I did not know that it affects mnemosyne. The error now is:

$ mnemosyne 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/mnemosyne", line 11, in <module>
    from qt import *
RuntimeError: the sip module implements API v8.0 but the qt module requires API v7.0

Can someone give me some input on how to solve this issue. Thanks!

ciao
#EO

anonymous_user · 2010-10-10 16:24:32

If the problem really is caused by Qt 4.7, then try downgrading to confirm it:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dow … g_Packages

bernarcher · 2010-10-10 19:30:15

The problem is with the sip package which has been upgraded to 4.11.1-1 on 2010-10-07. Downgrading to sip 4.10.5-1 did help here.

I remember similar issues about a year (?) back. Eventually the packages will be in sync again. Perhaps a bug report would be in order.

Edit:
Judging from this older bug report it is most probably pyqt3 that needs a rebuild to match the new sip package. I do not have the time yet to do so but somebody could try and issue a new bug report accordingly.

Last edited by bernarcher (2010-10-10 20:12:52)

bernarcher · 2010-10-12 16:39:36

I just got the time and rebuilt pyqt3 against the new sip package. Mnemosyne does now work again.

I issued an according bug report #21221. You may vote for it if the pyqt3 package won't be upgraded soon.

EO · 2010-10-15 01:57:53

Thank you very much for your help! I will try to fix it with the input provided by you, its really a great community.

ciao
#EO

EO · 2010-10-23 21:51:10

Sorry for bothering you again, but i followed the instrutions and made

pacman -Syu

yesterday, and the error message when I start mnemosyne is now

$ mnemosyne
  File "/usr/bin/mnemosyne", line 104
    except MnemosyneError, e:
                         ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

maybe i should write to the mnemosyne developers.

Thanks again and

ciao
#EO

bernarcher · 2010-10-23 22:06:22

I experienced this error, too. Thus I gave the anki package from community a try following the hint by bostonvaulter on the mnemosyne AUR page.

Judgeing from a few test runs anki indeed is an impressing replacement for mnemosyne. I was able to import all my mnemosyne decks into anki. Although I had to start the memorizing sequences from scratch, everything else appears to work. And anki is far more customizable than mnemosyne.

Perhaps you may want to give it a try, too.

Edit:
Anki obviously also imports the mnemosyne statistics. It was a misunterstanding that I had to start the memory sequences from scratch (i.e. with an empty statistic). Thus it really appears a full fledged replacement for mnemosyne.

Last edited by bernarcher (2010-10-24 13:35:07)

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Mnemosyne and QT

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