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[cobelloy]

hi, I would like to install exaile which is just like amarok but for gtk,

http://www.exaile.org/index.rb?command=news

here are its dependancies:

* Python 2.4
* python-gtk2 (2.8.6)
* gstreamer 0.10, gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
* python-gpod (optional for iPod support)
* Optional: gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly (for mp3 support)
* python-dbus

I have mu's python and py-gtk packages installed, the tarball of gstreamer installed, and the plugins were a deb (since the tarball called for something called liboil, even when it was installed) python gpod I left out since i dont have an ipod.

python dbus has been a real problem so far

i can install dbus from a tarball but the python-dbus (which comes with a python install file) wont install

sh-3.00# python setup.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 9, in ?
from Pyrex.Distutils import build_ext
ImportError: No module named Pyrex.Distutils

i installed dbus and dbus python from debs but exaile would not run, even though it installed fine, i also tried the exaile deb, but that was the same

sh-3.00# exaile
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/exaile", line 26, in ?
import xl.dbusinterface
File "/usr/share/exaile/xl/dbusinterface.py", line 18, in ?
cobelloy: import dbus
(10:21:50) cobelloy: ImportError: No module named dbus



what am i missing here?

[Liboicl]

I know this is an old post and the poster has probably either solved the problem or gave up, but I ran into a similar problem and thought I might be able to help someone else by providing my solution.

#python
>>>>import sys
>>>>sys.path

Doing this will list all of the paths that python looks for modules in. The most common one is site-packages, but for some reason mine did not look there, so I moved all of the files to dist-packages, which my python did look in. I then deleted site-packages and made an absolute link to dist-packages named site-packages.

I hope this is helpful to any one else running into this problem.

[npierce]