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Spyder fails to start on Linux with Qt 5.6 and Anaconda because of the lack of libselinux.so.1
See original GitHub issueDescription of your problem
Spyder unable to load due to import error in Linux 64bit.
Edit: This issue also existed on previous version 3.0.0b5.
What steps will reproduce the problem?
- create new conda environment
conda create -n spyder python 2. Install spyder
conda install -c qttesting qt pyqt conda install -c spyder-ide spyder==3.0.0b6 3. Run spyder
spyder
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/idwaker/miniconda3/envs/spyder/lib/python3.5/site-packages/qtpy/QtWebEngineWidgets.py", line 22, in <module>
from PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets import QWebEnginePage
ImportError: No module named 'PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/idwaker/miniconda3/envs/spyder/bin/spyder", line 3, in <module>
start.main()
File "/home/idwaker/miniconda3/envs/spyder/lib/python3.5/site-packages/spyder/app/start.py", line 116, in main
from spyder.app import mainwindow
File "/home/idwaker/miniconda3/envs/spyder/lib/python3.5/site-packages/spyder/app/mainwindow.py", line 92, in <module>
from qtpy import QtWebEngineWidgets # analysis:ignore
File "/home/idwaker/miniconda3/envs/spyder/lib/python3.5/site-packages/qtpy/QtWebEngineWidgets.py", line 26, in <module>
from PyQt5.QtWebKitWidgets import QWebPage as QWebEnginePage
ImportError: libselinux.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Please provide any additional information below
while using python 2, has same results
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/idwaker/miniconda3/envs/spyder-py2/bin/spyder", line 3, in <module>
start.main()
File "/home/idwaker/miniconda3/envs/spyder-py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spyder/app/start.py", line 116, in main
from spyder.app import mainwindow
File "/home/idwaker/miniconda3/envs/spyder-py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spyder/app/mainwindow.py", line 92, in <module>
from qtpy import QtWebEngineWidgets # analysis:ignore
File "/home/idwaker/miniconda3/envs/spyder-py2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/qtpy/QtWebEngineWidgets.py", line 26, in <module>
from PyQt5.QtWebKitWidgets import QWebPage as QWebEnginePage
ImportError: libselinux.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Versions and main components
- Spyder Version: 3.0.0b6
- Python Version: 2.7 and 3.5
- Operating system: Linux 64bit with Miniconda
Dependencies
output of conda list
# packages in environment at /home/idwaker/miniconda3/envs/spyder:
#
alabaster 0.7.8 py35_0
astroid 1.4.4 py35_0
babel 2.3.3 py35_0
cairo 1.12.18 6
decorator 4.0.10 py35_0
docutils 0.12 py35_2
entrypoints 0.2.2 py35_0
expat 2.1.0 0
fontconfig 2.11.1 6
freetype 2.5.5 1
glib 2.43.0 1
harfbuzz 0.9.39 1
icu 54.1 0
imagesize 0.7.1 py35_0
ipykernel 4.4.1 py35_0
ipython 5.1.0 py35_0
ipython_genutils 0.1.0 py35_0
jedi 0.9.0 py35_1
jinja2 2.8 py35_1
jpeg 8d 1
jsonschema 2.5.1 py35_0
jupyter_client 4.3.0 py35_0
jupyter_core 4.1.1 py35_0
lazy-object-proxy 1.2.1 py35_0
libffi 3.2.1 0
libgcc 5.2.0 0
libpng 1.6.22 0
libsodium 1.0.10 0
libxml2 2.9.2 0
logilab-common 1.0.2 py35_0
markupsafe 0.23 py35_2
mistune 0.7.2 py35_0
nbconvert 4.2.0 py35_0
nbformat 4.0.1 py35_0
openssl 1.0.2h 1
pango 1.39.0 1
path.py 8.2.1 py35_0
pep8 1.7.0 py35_0
pexpect 4.0.1 py35_0
pickleshare 0.7.3 py35_0
pip 8.1.2 py35_0
pixman 0.32.6 0
prompt_toolkit 1.0.3 py35_0
psutil 4.3.0 py35_0
ptyprocess 0.5.1 py35_0
pyflakes 1.2.3 py35_0
pygments 2.1.3 py35_0
pylint 1.5.4 py35_0
python 3.5.2 0
pytz 2016.6.1 py35_0
pyzmq 15.4.0 py35_0
qtawesome 0.3.3 py35_0
qtconsole 4.2.1 py35_0
dbus 1.11.2 3 qttesting
gst-plugins-base 1.8.0 0 qttesting
gstreamer 1.8.0 0 qttesting
libxcb 1.11.1 0 qttesting
pyqt 5.6.0 py35_0 qttesting
qt 5.6.0 0 qttesting
readline 6.2 2
rope 0.9.4 py35_1
setuptools 25.1.6 py35_0
simplegeneric 0.8.1 py35_1
six 1.10.0 py35_0
snowballstemmer 1.2.1 py35_0
sphinx 1.4.1 py35_0
sphinx_rtd_theme 0.1.9 py35_0
qtpy 1.1.1 py_0 spyder-ide
sip 4.18 py35_0 spyder-ide
spyder 3.0.0b6 py35_1 spyder-ide
sqlite 3.13.0 0
tk 8.5.18 0
tornado 4.4.1 py35_0
traitlets 4.2.2 py35_0
wcwidth 0.1.7 py35_0
wheel 0.29.0 py35_0
wrapt 1.10.6 py35_0
xz 5.2.2 0
zeromq 4.1.4 0
zlib 1.2.8 3
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This bit me this AM on Arch Linux, and I wanted to make a note for Arch users that while selinux 1 is not available on arch, installing selinux 2.5 from the Arch User Repository appears to resolve the issue (in other words it boots up but I haven’t used it extensively yet).
Thanks for reporting. This error happens because
libQt5WebKit.sodepends onlibselinux.so.1and you don’t have it installed in your system (that library is not provided by Anaconda).I don’t know what Linux distro you’re using, but in Ubuntu you can run
to install it.
@mingwandroid, why Webkit ends up compiled against selinux? I checked other Qt libraries (e.g. QtWidgets) and they don’t have that dependency 😃