Error at startup

[Loganavter]

I tried to run the installed prototyp-qt on arch linux, but an error came out because of which it did not start.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Open terminal
2. Entered the command "protonup-qt"
3. I was waiting to see the program launch
4. See error

I was waiting to see the program run without errors.

• PC

• Arch linux (Endeavour OS)

• ProtonUp-Qt 2.8.0-1

• Installed from the official arch linux repository "sudo pacman -S protonup-qt"

When I downloaded it for the first time 1-2 months ago, it worked and quietly installed protonGE on steam and lutris.

[jorj@jorj-systemproductname Новая папка 1]$ protonup-qt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pupgui2/__main__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from pupgui2.pupgui2 import main
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pupgui2/pupgui2.py", line 18, in <module>
    from pupgui2 import ctloader
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pupgui2/ctloader.py", line 9, in <module>
    from pupgui2.util import create_msgbox
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pupgui2/util.py", line 18, in <module>
    from pupgui2.datastructures import BasicCompatTool, CTType
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pupgui2/datastructures.py", line 2, in <module>
    import vdf
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'vdf'

Try to replicate the bug and paste the text output of the command here afterwards.

[jorj@jorj-systemproductname]$ protonup-qt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pupgui2/__main__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from pupgui2.pupgui2 import main
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pupgui2/pupgui2.py", line 18, in <module>
    from pupgui2 import ctloader
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pupgui2/ctloader.py", line 9, in <module>
    from pupgui2.util import create_msgbox
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pupgui2/util.py", line 18, in <module>
    from pupgui2.datastructures import BasicCompatTool, CTType
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pupgui2/datastructures.py", line 2, in <module>
    import vdf
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'vdf'

[sonic2kk]

Seems like a packaging issue where it didn't install the required vdf library for Python. You should report this to the package maintainer, and in the meantime try the AppImage/Flatpak.

I checked the arch repos and I couldn't see a ProtonUp-Qt package, I only know of the two on the AUR that are mentioned on the Readme (protonup-qt and protonup-qt-bin). Do you have a link to the package on the official Arch repos?

[Loganavter]

Seems like a packaging issue where it didn't install the required vdf library for Python. You should report this to the package maintainer, and in the meantime try the AppImage/Flatpak.

I checked the arch repos and I couldn't see a ProtonUp-Qt package, I only know of the two on the AUR that are mentioned on the Readme (protonup-qt and protonup-qt-bin). Do you have a link to the package on the official Arch repos?

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/protonup-qt

[sonic2kk]

That's an AUR package, it's not part of the official Arch repos.

I recommend contacting the package maintainer and showing them the error message from this issue, as it relates to a missing Python package. Though the dependecies for the package do list python-vdf, so I'm not sure why it is missing.

[sonic2kk]

I just tested installing that package and it worked fine. I was using yay rather than Pacman - I didn't know you could use Pacman to install AUR packages. If you're still having issues you could try one of the following:

• Using an AUR helper like yay, though there are others (yay is just my preferred choice).
• Installing with makepkg, you can do this by downloading the PKGBUILD and from the commandline in the same folder you downloaded it to, run makepkg -si PKGBUILD.
• Checking if you can manually install the python-vdf package, to see if there's some conflict or something?
• If all else fails, contact the package maintainer

If you were able to install this AUR package with Pacman, perhaps for some reason it was missing installing the dependencies. I have never seen anyone install AUR packages with Pacman before, they have always used some form of AUR helper, but just because I didn't know doesn't mean it isn't possible to do so :-)

[DavidoTek]

as it relates to a missing Python package. Though the dependecies for the package do list python-vdf, so I'm not sure why it is missing.

I'm not 100% how Pacman/Yay handle AUR dependencies. Is it possible that the python-vdf got uninstalled manually somehow?

You could try installing it manually again.

[DavidoTek]

I will close this as it is not related to ProtonUp-Qt, but for some reason the dependency got uninstalled.

[stereotypy]

I had this issue on arch using yay and I used this trick from the aur repo. Python-vdf was already installed and somehow it didn't pick up until I did this.

yay --answerclean A -S protonup-qt python-vdf

[sonic2kk]

If you haven't already, it might be worth leaving a comment about that on the AUR as well, since the AUR package is maintained separately 🙂