Tartube cannot start because it cannot find its icons folder

[dacorsa]

Hi guys,
i downloaded latest code from this github site, i run "python3 setup.py install" but when i launch tartube i receive this error:

tartube
/usr/local/bin/tartube:4: DeprecationWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API. See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html
import('pkg_resources').run_script('tartube==2.5.66', 'tartube')
Tartube cannot start because it cannot find its icons folder

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What operating system are you using?

ubuntu 24.04

What version of Tartube are you using?

latest code

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tartube not start

[dacorsa]

Please can you tell me how to create the deb package from the code downloaded from github?
thanks

[axcore]

i run "python3 setup.py install" but when i launch tartube i receive this error:

I will test that. In the mean time, you don't need to install Tartube, you can just run the source code directly.

Open a terminal in the Tartube directory (the one that contains setup.py), and type

python3 tartube/tartube

There is also a .deb package, you can download it from here.

[dacorsa]

Thanks good morning @axcore , i'd like to know how create deb package from source, not download already done, it's possibile to create deb package?
Thanks, best regards

[axcore]

This is how I create the .deb package:

su
apt install git build-essential python3-setuptools python3-pip python3-all dh-python
apt-get install python3-stdeb fakeroot lintian
apt-file update
apt install python3-feedparser python3-requests 
exit
pip3 install playsound asyncio --break-system-packages

Download the Tartube source code, and extract it
Move ../pack/stdeb.cfg into the directory above (the one containin setup.py)
Open a terminal window in that folder, and type

TARTUBE_PKG=1 python3 setup.py sdist
su
TARTUBE_PKG=1 python3 setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb
exit
lintian deb_dist/python3-tartube*deb

Your new .deb package is in the /deb_dist directory.

[axcore]

About your error,

DeprecationWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API. See...

My best guess is that it's an issue with pip, as described here. But I'm not sure because I can't reproduce the error on my Ubuntu machine.