Not able to start Viewer

[pwkooij]

I haven't been able to get the viewer started since it seems to have issues with both my firefox and chromium versions.

blobtools view --interactive masurca_blobtools/
Initializing viewer
2024-07-15 11:26:22.058 [ERROR] Unable to start Firefox using geckodriver, possible version mismatch.
2024-07-15 11:26:22.059 [ERROR] Try `conda install -c conda-forge firefox geckodriver` or use `blobtools view --driver chromium` to use chrome browser.
2024-07-15 11:26:22.059 [ERROR] Or try deleting the existing geckodriver executable from /home/pepijn/miniconda3/envs/btk/bin/geckodriver then rerun this command to install a compatible version.

blobtools view --driver chromium --interactive masurca_blobtools/
Initializing viewer
2024-07-15 11:27:00.796 [INFO] Chrome and chromedriver must be available for blobtools view
2024-07-15 11:27:00.796 [INFO] Attempting to install the appropriate chromedriver version
2024-07-15 11:27:01,534 [INFO] Downloading chromedriver (126.0.6478.126)...
2024-07-15 11:27:02.744 [INFO] Successfully installed chromedriver
2024-07-15 11:28:02.990 [ERROR] Unable to start Chrome using chromedriver, possible version mismatch.
2024-07-15 11:28:02.990 [ERROR] Try `blobtools view --driver firefox` to use firefox browser.
2024-07-15 11:28:02.990 [ERROR] Or try deleting the existing chromedriver executable from /home/pepijn/miniconda3/envs/btk/lib/python3.9/site-packages/chromedriver_autoinstaller/126/chromedriver then rerun this command to install a compatible version.

blobtoolkit v4.3.11
Mozilla Firefox 128.0
Chromium 126.0.6478.126 snap

[rjchallis]

Sorry I'd let your issue go stale

If you haven't got this working, then for interactive use I'd recommend installing and starting up the Viewer and API binaries separately using these instructions.

If you want to use blobtools view to generate plots on the command line, you can pass the --plot flag to blobtools view to have it use an alternate plotting library that doesn't involve spinning up a web browser., e.g.

blobtools view \
    --plot \
    --view snail \
    /path/to/BlobDir

[pwkooij]

I'll have a look at this to see if I can get it to work this way.

In the meantime I resolved it using blobtools view --remote