I’m trying to install PDFMasher, an unmaintained, but still one-of-a-kind program in terms of functionality - it used to be perfect in stripping pdfs of articles of all the paratext and then converting them to epub/mobi files. It’s unmaintained on github but I cloned it, hoping I can get it to work. When I try to run the install script included in the repo, it returns
PyQt 4.8+ required. Install it and try again. Aborting
When I try to install it using pip, it returns
Requirement already satisfied: pyqt5 in /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages (5.15.7)
Requirement already satisfied: PyQt5-sip<13,>=12.11 in /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from pyqt5) (12.11.0)
How can I get PyQt4.8+? Has anyone successfully installed pdfmasher on their system? I need this program, badly.
This moved it along. But building the package stopped with the following:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/***/pdfmasher/hscommon/build.py", line 278, in iter_by_three
version = next(it)
StopIteration
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/***/pdfmasher/./build.py", line 180, in <module>
main()
File "/home/***/pdfmasher/./build.py", line 177, in main
build_normal(ui, dev)
File "/home/***/pdfmasher/./build.py", line 146, in build_normal
build_help()
File "/home/***/pdfmasher/./build.py", line 143, in build_help
sphinxgen.gen(help_basepath, help_destpath, changelog_path, tixurl, confrepl, confpath)
File "/home/***/pdfmasher/hscommon/sphinxgen.py", line 47, in gen
changelog = read_changelog_file(changelogpath)
File "/home/***/pdfmasher/hscommon/build.py", line 288, in read_changelog_file
for version, date_str, description in iter_by_three(iter(splitted)):
RuntimeError: generator raised StopIteration
I ended up going with the windows version over wine. Does the trick, and I didn’t know how to proceed with the failed build. If anyone reading this has suggestions for alternatives, I’d welcome that!