Is ptxprint published on PyPI?

Question

J'ai remarqué que PTXprint est distribué sur Ubuntu 25.04 sous le nom de paquet python3-ptxprint (Modification : c'est incorrect, les dépôts d'Ubuntu n'incluent pas PTXprint. J'ai dû installer python3-ptxprint depuis une autre source). Cela me fait penser que ptxprint est un module Python, qui pourrait être trouvé sur PyPI, mais je ne parviens pas à le trouver.

Si j'exécute pip install ptxprint , j'obtiens cette erreur :

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement ptxprint (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for ptxprint

De même, le lien https://pypi.org/project/ptxprint/ mène à une erreur 404.

ptxprint est-il disponible en tant que paquet Python ? Il serait pratique de pouvoir exécuter ptxprint en mode sans interface graphique (headless) et de l'inclure comme dépendance dans mon application Python.

Traduit automatiquement depuis English Afficher l'original

Answer 1

PTXprint is not available on PyPI. My guess is that the developers chose not to publish the package on PyPI, because the package has a lot of dependencies that themselves aren't on PyPI (like GTK and TeX Live). So, even if the package was available on PyPI, installation would still be more complicated than just running pip install ptxprint.

There is a GitHub repo for some of the code behind PTXprint here: https://github.com/sillsdev/ptx2pdf . I don't know why it is named ptx2pdf instead of PTXprint. This is linked to by this download page on sil.org.

Answer 2

The difficulty in making a pypi package is that PTXprint is an application and pypi packaging really doesn't lend itself to including all the supporting data directories that are needed for PTXprint. If you'd like to take a shot at it, I would be interested if you can get anywhere.

Having said that, the pyproject.toml file does lend itself to installing from source. That is: pull the repo and pip install -e . or whatever. If you do that you will get a headless ptxprint installation with no gui extras, if you want gui then you'll need something like pip install -e .[gui] but be warned the gui dependencies are steep and do not lend themselves to being installed by pip, you may be better off using other mechanisms (your package manager) for many of the gui specific dependencies.

Comments

Nice. That means I can add this line to requirements.txt:
git+https://github.com/sillsdev/ptx2pdf@master#egg=ptxprint

Then I can install all the dependencies listed in requirements.txt by running pip install -r requirements.txt.

Alternatively, I can use uv like this: uv add 'ptxprint @ git+https://github.com/sillsdev/ptx2pdf'