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$ pdfcropmargins

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/bin/pdfcropmargins", line 5, in <module>

from pdfCropMargins.pdfCropMargins import main

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pdfCropMargins'

As an alternative, the python package (installed with pipx) works.

Edit: Solved by reinstalling.

Getting a permission error. Trying to override permissions with sudo chmod 777 /usr/bin/pdf-crop-margins doesn't work.

Removing existing $pkgdir/ directory...

Entering fakeroot environment...

Starting package()...

Processing ./pdfCropMargins-2.1.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl

Requirement already satisfied: wheel in /usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages (from pdfCropMargins==2.1.4) (0.44.0)

Requirement already satisfied: pillow>=10.1.0 in /usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages (from pdfCropMargins==2.1.4) (11.0.0)

Requirement already satisfied: PyMuPDF>=1.19.6 in /usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages (from pdfCropMargins==2.1.4) (1.24.13)

Installing collected packages: pdfCropMargins

Attempting uninstall: pdfCropMargins

Found existing installation: pdfCropMargins 2.1.2

Uninstalling pdfCropMargins-2.1.2:

ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/bin/pdf-crop-margins'

Consider using the --user option or check the permissions.

ERROR: A failure occurred in package().

Aborting...

error: failed to build 'pdfcropmargins-2.1.4-1':

Options --no-dependencies --ignore-installed should be added to pip command.

@zoe I modified PKGBUILD to build the package from source rather than using the prebuilt one from pypi (as most arch python packages do) https://fars.ee/kVSJ

meanwhile, python-pysimplegui from aur can still be used because the maintainer is unlikely to upgrade to the non-free version.

PKGBUILD for version 2.1.2

@zoe Do you plan to update this package?

It complains that PyPDF2 is not available even if python-pypdf2 was installed as a dependency:

Error in pdfCropMargins: No system PyPDF2 Python package was found. Reinstall pdfCropMargins via pip or install that dependency ('pip install pypdf2').

$ pacman -Q python-pypdf2 python-pypdf2 1:2.12.1-3

Checking on the upstream repository, since the version 2.0.0 the dependency to PyPDF2 is not needed. So, a possible fix is to update this AUR entry.

@victorgv : I cannot reproduce your error. For me, it does work well, and my archlinux is up-to-date…

After a full system update (through pacman -Syu), pdf-crop-margins raise the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pdf-crop-margins", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('pdfCropMargins==0.2.15', 'console_scripts', 'pdf-crop-margins')())
  File "/usr/bin/pdf-crop-margins", line 22, in importlib_load_entry_point
    for entry_point in distribution(dist_name).entry_points
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/importlib/metadata.py", line 524, in distribution
    return Distribution.from_name(distribution_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/importlib/metadata.py", line 187, in from_name
    raise PackageNotFoundError(name)
importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError: pdfCropMargins

Tried reinstalling with yay -S pdfcropmargins. Unfortunately it keeps failing.

Then I tried running sudo pip install pdfCropMargins and it seems to be working.

Isn't it bad practice to manually install PYPI packages as root? IMHO this update should be automatically handled by this package.