where's Linux?

[sanana-banana]

I can't find the Linux download, is there something I'm missing?

[ste1590]

https://github.com/Anjok07/ultimatevocalremovergui/archive/refs/heads/master.zip

[sanana-banana]

oh why thank you

[sanana-banana]

um excuse me but how do I install one of these

[ste1590]

Via pip3, you can find instructions for Ubuntu in the readme file. If you use another distribution, then use the appropriate package manager for that distribution before the last command "pip3 install -r requirements.txt". Currently, Ubuntu 22.04 / 22.10 works well, the same for Linux Mint 21 and probably Fedora 37. If you are using a rolling release distro, Arch or Debian Sid based this version will not work for a while due to some Python dependencies. Also, if you manage to install this and get a choppy sound in your audio file after all, just remove gstreamer1.0-libav package from the system. It's currently bugged in Ubuntu.

[sanana-banana]

oh thank you

[ste1590]

Just an update on this regarding the Linux install. In my previous answer, I wrote that due to Python dependencies, it will not work on rolling release distributions. Well, it will work like a charm on every distribution and version, I just tested this on Debian Sid and Arch as well. All you have to do is to install pyenv package and create a virtual Python environment for this purpose. The last version of Python that works with UVR 5.5.1 is 3.10.12. These are the installation steps for Debian, for other distributions just use the appropriate package manager but everything else is the same.

sudo apt install ffmpeg
sudo apt install python3-pip
sudo apt install python3-tk
sudo apt install build-essential
sudo apt install libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev libbz2-dev libgdbm-dev libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev libffi-dev tk-dev lzma liblzma-dev
sudo apt install curl
sudo apt install git
curl -L https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv-installer/raw/master/bin/pyenv-installer | bash
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.pyenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(pyenv virtualenv-init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
pyenv install 3.10.12
pyenv global 3.10.12
pyenv local 3.10.12

Now you need to download UVR from this link
https://github.com/Anjok07/ultimatevocalremovergui/archive/refs/heads/master.zip

The archive must be unzipped, and you need to cd to the directory and run the command:
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

At the very end, you can create a shortcut or just run the application from the terminal using this command (depending on where you unzip the UVR folder, I unzipped the archive in /opt, and I can run it like this from the terminal)

/home/USERNAME/.pyenv/versions/3.10.12/bin/python3 /opt/ultimatevocalremovergui-master/UVR.py

In case you need the system version of Python for something else, you can set it from the terminal with
pyenv global system
pyenv local system

UVR will still work as we have version 3.10.12 in the shortcut path and will not interfere with the system version of Python.

[harm6]

I tried to follow your advice, alas
pyenv install 3.10.12
returns:

...
Installing Python-3.10.12...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/harm/.pyenv/versions/3.10.12/lib/python3.10/tkinter/__init__.py", line 37, in <module>
    import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_tkinter'
WARNING: The Python tkinter extension was not compiled and GUI subsystem has been detected. Missing the Tk toolkit?
Installed Python-3.10.12 to /home/harm/.pyenv/versions/3.10.12
...

Any hint how to proceed?

Anyway, I did the other steps as well.
Though,
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
caused a complete system crash while doing the torch-install...

:(

[ste1590]

What distribution are you using? Before you start with Python virtual env, make sure you installed all packages I mentioned above. The error you are reporting is related to the python3-tk package. If pip3 install command caused a complete system crash, it means that you are not using a virtual env instead of the system version of Python. Before you execute the command pip3 install, you need to set

pyenv global 3.10.12
pyenv local 3.10.12

[harm6]

Thanks for your reply!

What distribution are you using?

Ubuntu 22.04.2

The error you are reporting is related to the python3-tk package.

Yep, though, I don't know how to fix it in the virtual env....

If pip3 install command caused a complete system crash, it means that you are not using a virtual env

Well
$ which pip3
returns
/home/harm/.pyenv/shims/pip3
Similar result for python, python3, pip
For me it looks I am using python from the virtual env.
What am I missing?

[ste1590]

Looks like Ubuntu needs tk-dev lzma and liblzma-dev packages.

sudo apt install tk-dev lzma liblzma-dev

Then
pyenv global system
pyenv local system
pyenv uninstall 3.10.12
pyenv install 3.10.12
pyenv global 3.10.12
pyenv local 3.10.12
cd to UVR dir and then pip3 install -r requirements.txt

If you get an error regarding sklearn-pypi or scikit-learn during pip3 install -r requirements.txt you will need to remove folders sklearn and scikit_learn from /home/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages, then you need to run the command again.

It should work. Please try and let me know.

[harm6]

I followed your advice step by step, alas pip3 install -r requirements.txt caused a system crash again.
Though I think I found the culprit: From an earlier attempt I had torch-2.0.1 installed. Obviously trying to install torch-1.13.1 without removing the torch-2.0.1 does no good. Well, handling this more gracefully would have been nice...

Anyway, I have uvr up and running. I may have other usage-problems...
Is there a forum or a mailinglist apart from posting here at github?

Many thanks !!

[ste1590]

I am not sure what exactly caused the system crash in your case, I tried to recreate a similar issue, but I didn't succeed. Also, I tried on freshly installed Ubuntu 22.04.2 via VirtualBox and everything works fine. I personally never liked Ubuntu, Debian was always my first choice but anyway, it should work on any distro. Regarding the forum, I don't really know because I am not involved in this project or with the developers. I'm just an end user and a person who likes troubleshooting, so I just wanted to share some useful information and make it easier for other Linux users. :)