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jim-easterbrook / Photini

An easy to use digital photograph metadata (Exif, IPTC, XMP) editing application.
https://photini.readthedocs.io/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Windows - Photini won't run after update or new installation #39

Closed jim-easterbrook closed 5 years ago

jim-easterbrook commented 6 years ago

If you use Photini on Windows and run the installer or updater to get the latest version it may update the PyQt5 library as well. Unfortunately the latest version of PyQt5 for windows does not include the QtWebEngine (or older QtWebKit) component that Photini needs to display maps.

If Photini doesn't run after updating, try running it in a command window, as described in the documentation: https://photini.readthedocs.io/en/latest/other/installation.html#troubleshooting

If you get a message ending with "ImportError: cannot import name 'QtWebKit'" then you should downgrade PyQt5. Run the command window again, but as administrator, and run the following command:

pip install PyQt5==5.10.1

This should install an older version of PyQt5 that is known to work with Photini.

jim-easterbrook commented 5 years ago

The 2019.5 Windows installer release cures this bug.