Debian Linux - Tribler Version 7.5.2 does not start after installation

hr4631 · August 11, 2020, 4:43pm

I installed today Tribler by runnung:

wget https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/releases/download/v7.5.2/tribler_7.5.2_all.deb
sudo apt-get install ./tribler_7.5.2_all.deb

Then i had in my Gnome gui the tribler logo and i tried to start tribler but nothing happens when i click on it.
I tried then running tribler from the command line. I can read this:

tribler
Starting Tribler…
/usr/share/tribler ~

And then the process seems to stop again.

It does not seem to be related to Tribler doesn't start on Arch Linux! because i do not have any ~/.Tribler/ directory.

I dont know how to go on from here with this issue. I checked if there is some verbose debugging output, but running “tribler --help” does not show any options.

ichorid · August 11, 2020, 5:21pm

Thanks for reporting!
What exact version of Debian do you use? Did you use Tribler before on the same system?

hr4631 · August 11, 2020, 5:23pm

Distributor ID:	Debian
Description:	Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release:	10
Codename:	buster

I have never used Tribler on this system before.

hr4631 · August 12, 2020, 12:23pm

I spend some more time understanding this tribler project and find out that the installation tool is just a bunch of binaries like vlc and so on packed into a file. This dont make that much sense for me and i simply run it just like a normal software using the normal tools of my system and it seems to work fine. Howto: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/blob/devel/doc/development/development_on_linux.rst

This bug is still not fixed but i question now the need of packaging this huge amount of software into a deb file.

Please add tribler just to the official repo so that its listed here: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=tribler&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all

ichorid · August 12, 2020, 12:31pm

We’re going to pay closer attention to packaging and platform support this fall. Tribler is in constant development flux, so packing it in the official repository of Debian will hamper our ability to provide frequent updates. We were thinking about creating our own PPA though.

hr4631 · August 12, 2020, 12:55pm

A PPA would be nice. For arch linux users you can create frequent updates via AUR. Maybe there are some Arch linux users here who would like to see it here https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=tribler

ichorid · August 12, 2020, 4:49pm

This is not a technical problem, but a problem of lack of resources. We’re severely understaffed for our ambition level. Most of our developers use Linux or MacOS, but 90% of our users are Windows users. We just can’t afford to spread our effort further than it is now.

owned · August 21, 2020, 8:15pm

Same to me @ichorid.

Debian 10.5 up to date.
From 7.5.0 to 7.5.2, tribler never start and say nothing.
Remove tribler, installing vlc, installing tribler 7.5.2, tribler never start and say nothing.
Remove tribler, installing 7.5.1, tribler start as usual.

ichorid · August 24, 2020, 10:24am

To fix a crash on Windows, we had to upgrade our Python interpreter to 3.8 for Tribler 7.5.2. Consequently we had to recompile and update Libtorrent and VLC libraries. Typically we don’t do such drastic changes in minor releases, but the crash was bad so we had to act. Ironically, the upgrade introduced more problems that it had solved. We apologize to those users who were affected by these.

In the meantime, for Debian users: the problem with 7.5.2 is with Pyinstaller-packed modules and interpreter versions with your system. Please try to install from source. You will have to install the necessary dependencies by hand, though.

hr4631 · August 27, 2020, 9:38am

@owned
I can recommend to use this. You then dont mixup different software versions of different software that is build into the tribler-binary that is on the website.

github.com

Tribler/tribler/blob/devel/doc/development/development_on_linux.rst

This section contains information about setting up a Tribler development environment on Linux systems.

Debian/Ubuntu/Mint
------------------

First, install the required dependencies by executing the following command in your terminal:

.. code-block:: bash

    sudo apt install git libssl-dev libx11-6 vlc libgmp-dev python3 python3-minimal python3-pip python3-libtorrent python3-pyqt5 python3-pyqt5.qtsvg python3-scipy

Secondly, install python packages

.. code-block:: bash

    pip3 install aiohttp aiohttp_apispec chardet configobj decorator libnacl matplotlib netifaces networkx pony psutil pyasn1 requests lz4 pyqtgraph

Then, install py-ipv8 python dependencies

.. code-block:: bash

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Kencf0618 · September 12, 2020, 10:23pm

I’ve gottern the exact same behavior from the newest version. Very frustrating, particularly since I can’t run a Tor relay on this machine.

Kubuntu 18.04
Kernel 5.4.0-47-generic

hr4631 · September 20, 2020, 12:12pm

@Kencf0618

I cant recommend to use this binary from the website. Just download the original program from github. Its working MUCH better that way and you also dont run into security issues because of prebuild and outdated packages that are inside the tribler prepacked-package.

Here is what i recommend to run tribler that fixed my issue: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/blob/devel/doc/development/development_on_linux.rst