[Plugin] KindleImport Sigil plugin

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by jmurphy

Cool! Looking forward to seeing this and new versions of the software that uses KindleUnpack. Thanks, folks.

Sorry so late, but if you're still around and monitoring the thread, please give this version a try with the magazines you were having trouble with. If all seems well, I'll make an official new release.

EDIT: Beta attachment removed. It has been incorporated in the latest official release found on the first post of this thread.

[jmurphy]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Sorry so late, but if you're still around and monitoring the thread, please give this version a try with the magazines you were having trouble with. If all seems well, I'll make an official new release.

Yep, that seems to have done the trick!
Thanks very much.


Maybe KevinH could back-port any of these improvements into the standalone KindleUnpack and release that as well? (I'm not sure how closely related the various Kindle tools are.)

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays!

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by jmurphy

Yep, that seems to have done the trick!
Thanks very much.

Great. Thanks!

Originally Posted by jmurphy

Maybe KevinH could back-port any of these improvements into the standalone KindleUnpack and release that as well? (I'm not sure how closely related the various Kindle tools are.)

Already done. I pull from the upstream KindleUnpack repository to build this plugin (and the calibre KindleUnpack plugin), so everything will soon be same/same/same. We haven't made a new release for the upstream KindleUnpack yet, but anyone can download the source from the repository to run the standalone Python tool with the vary latest updates.

Originally Posted by jmurphy

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays!

To you too.

[mortimer7]

it doesn't work:

Stato: failed

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/sigil/plugin_launchers/python/launcher.py", line 141, in launch
    target_script = __import__(script_module)
  File "/home/pippo/.local/share/sigil-ebook/sigil/plugins/KindleImport/plugin.py", line 18, in <module>
    from gui_utilities import fileChooser, update_msgbox
  File "/home/pippo/.local/share/sigil-ebook/sigil/plugins/KindleImport/gui_utilities.py", line 12, in <module>
    from plugin_utils import iswindows
  File "/home/pippo/.local/share/sigil-ebook/sigil/plugins/KindleImport/plugin_utils.py", line 59, in <module>
    from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtNetwork, QtPrintSupport, QtSvg, QtWidgets  # noqa: F401
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyQt5'
Error: No module named 'PyQt5'

i use sigil 1.9.10-2 on ArchLinux 64bit.

[DiapDealer]

Sure it works. You just don't have all the recommended python modules installed that Sigil plugins use. Take a look at the optional dependencies list for sigil (primarily the ones tagged as "recommended for plugins").

https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/sigil/

In this case, it's the python-pyqt5 package you're missing.

[KevinH]

FWIW: I really wish Linux distributions would start including all of the pieces we include on Windows and macOS as plugin support is not truly optional (especially if you think about epubcheck, css validator, and so much other plugin provided functionality).

[Turtle91]

Can’t those be bundled with the main Sigil package on Linux so Sigil supports plugins natively ?? Who builds that package? Sorry, I’m a complete Linux noob.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by Turtle91

Can’t those be bundled with the main Sigil package on Linux so Sigil supports plugins natively ?? Who builds that package? Sorry, I’m a complete Linux noob.

Nope. Sigil isn't packaged by Linux maintainers with Python bundled. Linux users of Sigil need to use their system python. There is no "one Sigil package to rule them all". There are various package management systems for various flavors of Linux and all are maintained by various people. The maintainer of Sigil on Arch is different from the maintainer of Sigil on Ubuntu who is different from the maintainer on OpenSuse, etc...

They CAN however, choose to make the python modules that Sigil typically uses for plugins mandatory dependencies; they they just don't.