[Bug 1620300] Re: [SRU] Spyder won't start (ImportError: No module named QtWebKit)

[Scott Howard]

Actually, comment #13 is a bug in matplotlib:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=835455

That would be a separate bug against matplotlib, and a different SRU.


This fix is still ready for upload and awaiting a sponsor. See comment #12.

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Title:
  [SRU] Spyder won't start (ImportError: No module named QtWebKit)

Status in spyder package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in spyder package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Spyder won't start at all because Qt4WebKit has been removed. No small
  fix can be applied. To fix this, we must either re-introduce Qt4WebKit
  and use the xenial version of spyder (not going to happen), or use the
  version in zesty that is compatible with Qt5 (what is suggested here).
  Attachment to comment #12 is a debdiff against the version of spyder
  in zesty in order to work with the depending packages in yakkety.

  [Test Case]
  > apt-get install spyder3
  > spyder3
  ImportError: No module named QtWebKit

  [Regression Potential]
  can't get any worse



  Original report: After installing packages Spyder I tried to launch it
  but it reported:

  ** (python:19931): WARNING **: Couldn't register with accessibility bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/spyderlib/spyder.py", line 2331, in main
      mainwindow = run_spyder(app, options, args)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/spyderlib/spyder.py", line 2215, in run_spyder
      main.setup()
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/spyderlib/spyder.py", line 734, in setup
      message=_("Spyder Internal Console\n\n"
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/spyderlib/plugins/console.py", line 74, in __init__
      self.find_widget.set_editor(self.shell)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/spyderlib/widgets/findreplace.py", line 260, in set_editor
      from spyderlib.qt.QtWebKit import QWebView
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/spyderlib/qt/QtWebKit.py", line 10, in <module>
      from PyQt4.QtWebKit import *  # analysis:ignore
  ImportError: No module named QtWebKit

  A popup stated:
  Spyder crashed during last session.

  If Spyder does not start at all and before submitting a bug report, please try to reset settings to defaults by running Spyder with the command line option '--reset':
  python spyder --reset

  Warning: this command will remove all your Spyder configuration files
  located in '/home/leo/.spyder2-py3').

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
  Package: spyder 2.3.8+dfsg1-1build1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-9136.55-generic 4.4.16
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-9136-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Mon Sep  5 14:34:36 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-09-01 (3 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Alpha amd64 (20160901)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: spyder
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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