Solus Updates for Week 24, 2025

CorvusRuber

Not an actual problem but simply a (very minor) nuisance: ponysay throws a syntax warning every time it sends a message.
/usr/bin/ponysay/balloon.py:46: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\-'
It still works, it simply complains about it.

alfisya

CorvusRuber Fixed in unstable. Cheers!

Yannnd

EbonJaeger The cherry-picked update fixed the variety 0.8.13-40 issue. Thanks a lot!

FAb7D

Perhaps there is some small problem with the softwer center: after you have installed one program, it prevents you from looking for another one to install, or maybe is only a temporary problem

Staudey

FAb7D Prevents you how exactly?

joluveba

Updates OK, two computers with Solus KDE, one computer with Solus Xfce. Thank you 🙂

FAb7D

Staudey
I can't use "find" to search another program: when I click on that button nothing happens

EbonJaeger

Cherry-picked Valkey for CVE-2025-27151.

abentroth

I can't open some apps like the file manager, it happened after the last update
solus gnome

snowee

Hello EbonJaegar, Staudey and fellow Python users.

python3 --version
Python 3.12.10

python --version
Python 2.7.18

All this while, I used python3 -m venv program_envto create 2 different venvs and, once inside the venvs, I use python main.py to activate the python files.
I encountered errors trying to run my python files inside my venv environment, after this week's sync.

Do I need to install pip or pip2?
Do I need to install anything else too?

SOLVED : First I installed pip, then git cloned the entire program starting from scratch, together with reinitializing the virtual environment. pip2 is not required for my case.

EbonJaeger

snowee pip is for Python 3, so that'll be the one you want. It was recently de-bundled from other core Python packages.

As for the YAML one, I would guess you need pyyaml.

presianbg

Hi, thank you for the update <3

Anyone else having issues with ulauncher ?

ulauncher                                                                                                                                                           
2025-06-16 11:33:25,796 | ERROR | ulauncher: except_hook() | Uncaught exception
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ulauncher", line 28, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/ulauncher/main.py", line 136, in main
    window = UlauncherWindow.get_instance()
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/ulauncher/utils/decorator/singleton.py", line 19, in wrapper
    instance = fn(*args, **kwargs)
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/ulauncher/ui/windows/UlauncherWindow.py", line 56, in get_instance
    return cls()
           ^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/ulauncher/ui/windows/UlauncherWindow.py", line 64, in __new__
    builder = Builder.new_from_file('UlauncherWindow')
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/ulauncher/ui/windows/Builder.py", line 48, in new_from_file
    ui_filename = get_data_file('ui', '%s.ui' % (builder_file_name,))
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/ulauncher/config.py", line 43, in get_data_file
    return os.path.join(get_data_path(), *path_segments)
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/ulauncher/config.py", line 60, in get_data_path
    raise ProjectPathNotFoundError(abs_data_path)
ulauncher.config.ProjectPathNotFoundError: /ulauncher-5.15.7.data/data/share/ulauncher

alfisya

presianbg Yes, johano had that same problem (you can see it if you scroll up a bit). algent already have an idea to solve it which is we might have to update it to a beta version. It is up to the maintainer on how to solve it. Sorry about that.

You may want to explore other alternatives in the meantime, like rofi. Just a suggestion : )

johano

alfisya, I'm finding the version 6 (6.0.0.0 beta 18) is working well, considering it is still in beta. Apart from a few extensions incompatible with the new Version 3 API

After installation, it picked up all the existing shortcuts and extensions previously set up in version 5.

presianbg

alfisya rofi is awesome! Thanks for the recommendation.

Btw VIM package should be also rebuild against the new python3 version, because when trying to start the python interpreter from vim's console:

E370: Could not load library libpython3.11.so.1.0: libpython3.11.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
E263: Sorry, this command is disabled, the Python library could not be loaded.

Cheers!

ianmjones

I too hit the Ulauncher problem, and following @algent's post, created a temporary v5.9.9 for myself that uses v6.0.0-beta18 as its source.

Hopefully that'll mean when some official Ulauncher v6.0.0 version hits the repo, I'll just get the upgrade.

presianbg

johano How to get version 6 on Solus ? Do you have a package ?

alfisya

presianbg Thank you for the heads up. Tentative PR is up. Cheers!

johano

Hi presianbg

As it's beta it will have bugs, that said:

Remove Ulauncher version 5, sudo eopkg rm ulauncher
Download the beta from here to a temporary location
Extract the ulauncher folder and cd to it in a terminal
Run sudo ./setup.py install

It should add a keyboard shortcut to the system, if not you can do it manually by creating a global shortcut and setting your preferred shortcut combination. (I found Ulauncher > Preferences > Set Hotkey to be buggy).:

Name: Show Ulauncher
Exec: gapplication launch io.ulauncher.Ulauncher

It should pick up previous config from version 5, but some extensions may not work (they'll be flagged with an error tag and disabled in settings)

Good luck!

Staudey

FAb7D You have to click on the back button in the top left, because you're already in the "Search" category. Pretty sure this has always been this way.

EbonJaeger

Cherry-picked httrack for CVE-2017-14062.

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