Portable version not running about nton HOT 9 CLOSED

I've managed to recreate the bug by just opening a new Windows Sandbox environment and downloading the portable version. Since @lborruto got it working by installing the dependencies outside the portable/setup version, it's likely that there's some dependency that PyInstaller did not handle. Looking into it now.

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I've already noticed one possible problem. If you don't have one of the dependencies that are required, i.e. the bundled binaries like hacbrew, or the prod.keys, then it will just print a message and exit. Since the console window is removed on the GUI you never get to see these messages. So that could be one cause.
On my Windows Sandbox where I reproduced the error, simply putting the prod.keys file next to the portable exe, or in the %userprofile%/.switch folder, made the GUI actually open. It's likely this is the case for you guys as well.
However, with @lborruto saying installing via pip fixed it for him, is very strange.

I think you are right, I've added prokeys to C:\Users\<User>\.switch\ AND installed with pip.

Ahh, as in you did both and THEN noticed it started working? If that's the case then the solution has been found, I just need to add a GUI message box when the prod.keys and other dependencies are not found :)

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Considered fixed as of c7fff1f (v2.0.1)

If it's still happening please make a new issue.

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Hi, could you try the Installer version and see if that one will launch? It's not immediately clear why the portable version is failing to launch, nor ways to debug since it's a GUI application.

You could still perhaps try launch the exe from PowerShell or CMD and see if that gives any information. When it works, it should give no response text at all and simply launch.

Another option is to build a custom portable build with the console window kept active to see if any error information gets sent there.

Finally, another possibility is that some permission error somewhere occurred. Could you try running as admin?

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Same for me, installer or portable version.

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Same for me, installer or portable version.

I can only assume more weirdness with PyInstaller then. Have you tried anything I told the original issue creator?

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So after doing $ pip install nton[gui] the installer or portable version works fine!

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I've already noticed one possible problem. If you don't have one of the dependencies that are required, i.e. the bundled binaries like hacbrew, or the prod.keys, then it will just print a message and exit. Since the console window is removed on the GUI you never get to see these messages. So that could be one cause.

On my Windows Sandbox where I reproduced the error, simply putting the prod.keys file next to the portable exe, or in the %userprofile%/.switch folder, made the GUI actually open. It's likely this is the case for you guys as well.

However, with @lborruto saying installing via pip fixed it for him, is very strange.

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I've already noticed one possible problem. If you don't have one of the dependencies that are required, i.e. the bundled binaries like hacbrew, or the prod.keys, then it will just print a message and exit. Since the console window is removed on the GUI you never get to see these messages. So that could be one cause.

On my Windows Sandbox where I reproduced the error, simply putting the prod.keys file next to the portable exe, or in the %userprofile%/.switch folder, made the GUI actually open. It's likely this is the case for you guys as well.

However, with @lborruto saying installing via pip fixed it for him, is very strange.

I think you are right, I've added prokeys to C:\Users\<User>\.switch\ AND installed with pip.

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