I’ve been using this GNOME program called paperwork for a while now to scan and organize various documents. I’ve used it to scan a lot of important documents. Now I can’t access any of them because something has gone wrong with my package management and there’s something missing. the application no longer starts now and the problem may have something to do with some package called jarowinkler. Below is where the terminal output starts to go wrong
[INFO ] [openpaperwork_core ] Loading plugin 'paperwork_backend.i18n.pycountry' ...
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openpaperwork_core/uncaught_exception.py", line 29, in _on_uncaught_exception
self.core.call_one(
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openpaperwork_core/__init__.py", line 430, in call_one
assert \
AssertionError: A plugin has been loaded without being initialized. Call core.init() first
Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 581, in _build_master
ws.require(__requires__)
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 909, in require
needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 800, in resolve
raise VersionConflict(dist, req).with_context(dependent_req)
pkg_resources.ContextualVersionConflict: (jarowinkler 1.2.1 (/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages), Requirement.parse('jarowinkler<2.0.0,>=1.2.2'), {'rapidfuzz'})
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/paperwork-gtk", line 33, in <module>
sys.exit(load_entry_point('paperwork==2.1.1', 'gui_scripts', 'paperwork-gtk')())
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paperwork_gtk/main.py", line 216, in main
main_main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paperwork_gtk/main.py", line 187, in main_main
core.call_all("config_load_plugins", "paperwork-gtk", DEFAULT_GUI_PLUGINS)
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openpaperwork_core/__init__.py", line 406, in call_all
callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openpaperwork_core/config/__init__.py", line 99, in config_load_plugins
self.core.call_all(
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openpaperwork_core/__init__.py", line 406, in call_all
callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openpaperwork_core/config/backend/configparser.py", line 247, in config_backend_load_plugins
self.core.load(module)
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openpaperwork_core/__init__.py", line 165, in load
module = importlib.import_module(module_name)
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1050, in _gcd_import
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1027, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 688, in _load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 883, in exec_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paperwork_backend/i18n/pycountry.py", line 1, in <module>
import pycountry
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pycountry/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
import pkg_resources
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3260, in <module>
def _initialize_master_working_set():
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3234, in _call_aside
f(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3272, in _initialize_master_working_set
working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 583, in _build_master
return cls._build_from_requirements(__requires__)
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 596, in _build_from_requirements
dists = ws.resolve(reqs, Environment())
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 795, in resolve
raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'jarowinkler<2.0.0,>=1.2.2' distribution was not found and is required by rapidfuzz
What I’ve tried to fix it so far:
I tried re-installing the program by running sudo pacman -Rns paperwork, then installing again. This did not work.
I’m freaking out a bit here. All of the PDFs are still available to me but the way paperwork organizes the files makes it difficult to figure out what’s what without the program. I’m in the middle of a home sale/purchase and some important documents were saved with that program. I might need them very soon. Someone please help!