Re: Python problems with a lot of applications.

[Axel Freyn <axel-freyn@gmx.de>]

Hi Dark,
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 04:48:32PM +0100, Dark Nebula wrote:
>
> nn@Koad:~$ python
> Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Apr  5 2008, 16:44:07)
> [GCC 4.2.3 (Debian 4.2.3-3)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import sys
> >>> print sys.path
> ['', '/usr/local/lib/python25.zip', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5',  
> '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/plat-linux2',  
> '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/lib-tk',  
> '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload',  
> '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages']
> >>>
That's strange - on my machine, everything is installed in /usr/lib, not in
/usr/local/lib. Nevertheless, the path is missing, the modules seem to be installed.
If you do in python

import sys
sys.path.append("/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/")
sys.path.append("/usr/lib/python-support/python2.5/")
import pygtk

python should import pygtk, and everything should work.
To make this setting permanent, add the lines

/var/lib/python-support/python2.5
gtk-2.0
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gtk-2.0

to the file
/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/python-support.pth (if it does not exist
already, create it)
This file should be sourced each time python is executed.

But: probably, you should reinstall python, because on my machine, python is
installed in /usr, and not in /usr/local. Do you have /usr/bin/python2.5? What
happens, if you start it, and execute the

import sys
print sys.path
import pygtk

then?

Axel