PhonoRipper - FAQ
Question :
I just downloaded the Pmw package, but how to install it?
Answer :
You simply need to unpack the archive and copy the Pmw directory to a place
where Python can find it; the usual place for this is Python's site-packages directory,
usually /usr/lib/python2.x/site-packages/Pmw .
Q :
I try to use the image library that comes with snackAmp, but PhonoRipper fails to find it. What can I do?
A :
You need to set an environment variable SNACKAMP_LIB_DIR to the location where snackAmp libs are installed,
for example if you installed snackAmp into /opt, open a console window and type:
$ export SNACKAMP_LIB_DIR=/opt/snackAmp/lib
$ phonoripper
If that worked for you, you may add the "export SNACKAMP_LIB_DIR=/opt/snackAmp/lib" to your ~/.bashrc
to save you some typing in the future.
Q :
Each time I start PhonoRipper it yells at me, something about multithreading and "Use at your own risk".
A :
Some linux distributions (especially some flavors of debian) ship with a broken Tcl / Tk installation.
Something on these systems seems to break the multithreading support in Tk. So if your Tcl / Tk is
built with multithreading support, it might be broken but it not necessarily is (in fact most seem to be
not). If you get this message I strongly recommend running Phonoripper from a console, so
in case the window freezes, you can at least kill the application easily.
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