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@tompear: I believe that valentina-studio does not handle a Python virtual environment - although it is delivering its own python binary inside vcomponents folder.

Perhaps a support case should be opened by someone who has a non-free license in order to signal this problem and request a change in the way Python and dependencies are handled.

It would definitely be of benefit for valentina-studio to fully handle its own virtual Python environment, so that every component keep functionning regardless of the version actually present in the user's system.

Python was switched from version 3.13 to 3.14.

I am using valentina-studio package from AUR, after installing python313 package from AUR Valentina came back to life.

@Magissia: I see that event 16.5.0 now has an issue with Python.

In my opinion, something has changed with recent Python updates that managed to render unusable the application; I usually test locally the package before submitting it and I recall 16.5.0 working.

Please don't use «latest» URL as the hash will change unexpectedly.

The software doesn't start and throws this error :

Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Fatal Python error: Failed to import encodings module
Python runtime state: core initialized
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'

Current thread 0x00007f441766a300 (most recent call first):
  <no Python frame>
corrupted size vs. prev_size
[1]    156878 IOT instruction (core dumped)  /opt/VStudio/vstudio

There are no python-encodings packages in the dependencies, or in the repos.

@iiiypuk: my provider has nothing to do with the package; I hope you know that the PKGBUILD file is merely a set of commands and parameters (a recipe if you want) that will be followed and executed by the machine of every user who installs the package.

The Cloudflare "protection" will challenge either users from the whole world or user connected from IP addresses from areas that the software provider wants to challenge.

@SoftExpert: Perhaps you should change your provider or interview other people, since in my case the package was assembled without manually downloading the deb package, but using curl from the terminal.

UPD: I didn't immediately see that you updated the package.

@iiipuk: The package works normally, but the issue is that curl (or any other command-line download utility) cannot bypass the Cloudflare protection which requires human interaction on the web interface of the challenge. For now we could only update the package but the manual download of the DEB package would still be necessary.

If someone finds a way to automatically solve the Cloudflare challenge and, thus, bypass the protection it would be big news, since the protection has been created to not be bypassed automatically.

Me: 1. changed pkgver and _majorver variables.
2. changed sha256sums_x86_64 string.
3. run makepkg

Everything is working.

Release: 16.2
Location: Russia

Version 16.0.1 was released but the DEB cannot be downloaded with a simple command - it is behind a Cloudflare protection now, which cannot be solved from command-line.

The easiest option available, in a few steps:

1. clone this repository

2. change the current working path to be inside valentina-studio-bin folder

3. download the latest DEB package inside the valentina-studio-bin folder and rename it as valentina-studio-bin-16.0.1-x86_64.deb (it seems to be the latest, although the application advertises 16.0.2 as available)

4. run updatepkg to make sure the checksum matches your DEB file

5. run makepkg -sicC

If this set of commands makes you uncomfortable, then you should wait until the situation with the Cloudflare protection gets solved.

Sorry, but I cannot find another workaround for now. If someone has a better idea I'm really interested !

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