Mypaint not working

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The mypaint execution returns

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/mypaint", line 309, in <module>
    main.main(
    ~~~~~~~~~^
        datapath,
        ^^^^^^^^^
    ...<4 lines>...
        debug=debug,
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^
    )
    ^
  File "/usr/lib/mypaint/gui/main.py", line 133, in main
    lib.glib.init_user_dir_caches()
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/usr/lib/mypaint/lib/glib.py", line 193, in init_user_dir_caches
    k.value_name,
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'UserDirectory' object has no attribute 'value_name'

Solutions?

Thx

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Since it is in the official repo - packaged by Arch Linux - I suggest you update your system and use the repo version of mypaint.

 $ pamac info mypaint | grep -e Version -e Packager -e URL
Version               : 2.0.1-6
URL                   : http://mypaint.org/
Packager              : Jelle van der Waa <jelle@archlinux.org>

If that does not help - you will need to go upstream to the developer(s) as specified in the URL.

MyPaint developers promote the use of their flatpak - try that method instead - you will likely solve your issue that way.

Remove the repo version

sudo pacman -Rns mypaint

Install the flatpak version (you may need to install flatpak too) - if you are using plasma - you may want flatpak-kcm as well

sudo pacman -Syu flatpak flatpak-xdg-utils
flatpak install org.mypaint.MyPaint
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The issue has already been reported on Arch

and upstream also

A patch is mentioned in both reports, in case you want to go with that.

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