Maintenance: Deadline GUI dependencies requiring additional manual steps for installation

[viknith]

Description

On Linux, after installing the Submitter installer and running deadline config gui, additional dependencies are still needed in order to launch the GUI dialogue. The additional dependencies are PySide6, as well as a few other xcb dependencies.

The additional commands to run on Linux to install the dependencies are as follows:

pip install PySide6-essentials --python-version 3.9 -t /home/rocky/DeadlineCloudSubmitter/DeadlineClient/cli --only-binary=:all:
sudo yum install xcb-util-wm
sudo yum install xcb-util-keysyms
sudo yum install xcb-util-cursor

Once I run the above commands, the GUI dialogue launches successfully.

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Switching gears to Windows, if I ran a User level installation of Deadline, then the extra dependencies needed for the GUI submitter are installed just fine, but if I did a System-level installation, I don't have permissions to install the dependencies and run into this error

And the only way around it is to "Run As Admin" and then attempt to install the needed dependencies by running deadline gui submit --browse. I would have to run my DCC as Admin as well so that I'm able to submit a job.

We have also found that you also need to manually update file permissions for PySide after deadline CLI installs the dependencies.

Solution

All necessary dependencies for the Deadline CLI and GUI must be installed by the installer, rather than depending on the customer to handle additional installation steps.

[ttblanchard]

Hi, thanks for submitting this issue!

This is something that we are aware of and we are planning to fix it eventually. We will provide more details on this issue when we have them.