I’ve installed psychopy 2024.2.5 on a clean install of Ubuntu 22.04, following this page. I decided to use 22.04 rather than 24.04 since 22.04 still uses python3.10 as default. I am able to get through the install steps, but unable to launch psychopy builder or coder in the end.
Installation
I created the virtual environment using python3.10 -m venv ~/.psychopy_py310 and source ~/.psychopy_py310/bin/activate (not virtualenv as I’ve seen in some older topics like this one.
I initially tried to install using the install script installPsychoPy.py, but turned to the method of installing with pip without dependencies and installing each dependency manually after wxPython and dukpy failed to build. Ultimately I got all the dependencies installed correctly, including the wxPython wheel “wxPython-4.2.2-cp310-cp310-linux_x86_64.whl” This was one of 19 wheels available for Ubuntu 22.04, so this could be where I went wrong. I couldn’t find any info about the required wxPython version. Note that my virtual environment was active throughout this process.
Launch Issues
When I type psychopy in the terminal with my virtual environment active, nothing happens (including any error message), psychopy --version or psychopy --help work as expected, but psychopy --builder, psychopy --coder or psychopy --firstrun also do nothing.
There’s a few paths it looks like I could go down based on similar posts from a year or two ago, but my main question is: how do I find out what exactly is going wrong? Are there any application logs that get saved? I’d rather know if it is an issue with wxPython, or drivers, or whatever else before throwing stuff at the wall.