autograbber not working after upgrade to 18.04

[Former user]

Hi there,

I'm not entirely sure what happened but something broke my installation. I tried reinstalling webdl but it didn't fix it.

running $HOME/webdl/autograbber-cron.sh $HOME/Downloads gets the following error:

INFO .virtualenv/bin/activate
INFO Running autograbber
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
ImportError: No module named 'encodings'

Current thread 0x00007f4e9fe40740 (most recent call first):
/home/v/webdl/autograbber-cron.sh: line 21:  4979 Aborted                 (core dumped) ./autograbber.py "$@"

I can run it if I use "python3 $HOME/webdl/autograbber.py $HOME/Downloads"

Thank you,

V

[delx]

Hi,

If you used the virtualenv/pip installation method then this is expected behaviour. Each new major Python version will require a reinstall.

Try deleting your virtualenv directory and following the instructions in the README again.

Hope that helps :)