SimpleCV - getting traceback errors running 1st 'hello world' script

[memilanuk]

So... fully up to date version of Ubuntu 13.04 on my laptop (Lenovo ThinkPad T530), downloaded the SimpleCV 1.3 superpack .deb file and installed it. When I open up an interactive interpreter, either regular python 2.7 or ipython, I get various errors as shown below:


In [1]: from SimpleCV import Camera, Display, Image
In [2]: cam = Camera()
VIDIOC_QUERYMENU: Invalid argument
VIDIOC_QUERYMENU: Invalid argument
VIDIOC_QUERYMENU: Invalid argument
VIDIOC_QUERYMENU: Invalid argument
VIDIOC_QUERYMENU: Invalid argument
VIDIOC_QUERYMENU: Invalid argument
VIDIOC_QUERYMENU: Invalid argument

In [3]: display = Display()
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
IOError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-3-026b8c705ca8> in <module>()
----> 1 display = Display()

/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/SimpleCV/Display.pyc in __init__(self, resolution, flags, title, displaytype, headless)
156 if not displaytype == 'notebook':
157 self.screen = pg.display.set_mode(resolution, flags)
--> 158 scvLogo = SimpleCV.Image("simplecv").scale(32,32)
159 pg.display.set_icon(scvLogo.getPGSurface())
160 if flags != pg.FULLSCREEN and flags != pg.NOFRAME:

/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/SimpleCV/ImageClass.pyc in __init__(self, source, camera, colorSpace, verbose, sample, cv2image)
785 self._bitmap = cv.LoadImage(self.filename, iscolor=cv.CV_LOAD_IMAGE_COLOR)
786 except:
--> 787 self._pil = pil.open(self.filename).convert("RGB")
788 self._bitmap = cv.CreateImageHeader(self._pil.size, cv.IPL_DEPTH_8U, 3)
789 cv.SetData(self._bitmap, self._pil.tostring())

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL/Image.pyc in open(fp, mode)
1986 if isStringType(fp):
1987 filename = fp
-> 1988 fp = builtins.open(fp, "rb")
1989 else:
1990 filename = ""

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/SimpleCV/sampleimages/simplecv.png'

In [4]:

...as well as a blank (black) pygame window. It looks like all of this goes back to one missing .png file?!?

Any ideas or suggestions welcome.

TIA,

Monte

[memilanuk]

Someone (on another forum) pointed me to the solution here:

https://github.com/sightmachine/SimpleCV/issues/213

Appears its an open issue (for over a year now) with the deb package...