Explorer 2 throws configparser.InterpolationSyntaxError: % must be followed by % or (

Question

Encountered this error while installing Explorer2 in a fresh instance of ubuntu.

I had to replace ConfigParser with RawConfigParser in readconf.py for explorer to run.

Answer 1

It looks like you have a % character in your .ini configuration file. I'm not sure if this intentional. But if so this should be escaped as %% (double percent character).