seafile-cli from current dpkg package (5.1.3-1ubuntu) not working

[maximilianduell]

I get the following error

$ seaf-cli status
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/seaf-cli", line 85, in <module>
    import ccnet
ImportError: No module named ccnet

I could not find a package in the repository which included the required python bindings.

[lins05]

The latest version is 6.0.1. Check https://github.com/haiwen/seafile-user-manual/blob/master/en/desktop/install-on-linux.md

[maximilianduell]

I followed the instructions under the debian section.

[lins05]

Can you check the output of dpkg-query -L libccnet0 ?

Also do you have python3 as the default? If so you can edit the first line of the seafile-cli script to use python2 explicitly.

[maximilianduell]

Sorry, I was wrong, I have 6.0.1 for libccnet0. Python version is correct (2.7.12+ from debian).

$ dpkg-query -s libccnet0
Package: libccnet0
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 142
Maintainer: Ondřej Surý <ondrej@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Multi-Arch: same
Source: ccnet
Version: 6.0.1+git20161217.155820f-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libevent-2.0-5 (>= 2.0.10-stable), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libjansson4 (>= 2.0.1), libsearpc1 (>= 3.0.7), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.5.9), libssl1.0.2 (>= 1.0.2d), libuuid1 (>= 2.16)
Description: framework for writing networked applications in C
 The Ccnet framework provides the following basic services:
  * Peer identification
  * Connection Management
  * Service invocation
  * Message sending
 .
 This package contains shared library.
Homepage: https://github.com/haiwen/ccnet

$ dpkg-query -L libccnet0
/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libccnet.so.0.0.0
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libccnet0
/usr/share/doc/libccnet0/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/libccnet0/copyright
/usr/share/lintian
/usr/share/lintian/overrides
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/libccnet0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libccnet.so.0

$ dpkg -s seafile-cli
Package: seafile-cli
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 65
Maintainer: m.eik michalke <meik.michalke@hhu.de>
Architecture: amd64
Source: seafile-daemon
Version: 6.0.0
Depends: python, libseafile0 (>= 6.0.0), ccnet (>= 5.1.2), seafile-daemon (>= 6.0.0)
Conflicts: seafile
Description: Seafile command line interface.
 This package contains the command line interface to manage Seafile libraries.
Homepage: http://seafile.com

Maybe I should just write directly to the debian maintainer?

[lins05]

Ah, so you're not using our debian repo hosted at bintray but using the official one packaged by @oerdnj for debian. Then it sgtm to report this problem there.

The reason seaf-cli doesn't work for you is beacuse the libccnet0 package you installed doesn't have the necessary ccnet python files included. Maybe one possible reason is debian package policy requires the python files to be in a separate pacakge, like python-libccnet?

[maximilianduell]

There is no such python-ccnet package in this repo. I checked before submitting the issue here. And I am using the bintray repo

deb http://dl.bintray.com/seafile-org/deb jessie main

Ah ok I understand, somehow the packages are mixed up between official repo and debian repo.

[maximilianduell]

Solution was manual downgrade to official ccnet packages.

sudo apt-get install libccnet0=6.0.0 ccnet=6.0.0

I could not get it to work before, because manual downgrade of libccnet0 is not enough to keep seafile installed due to some dependency stuff...

[killing]

I removed python files in the ccnet project in the recent code clean-up for debian packaging. I didn't recognize that would make cli clients not working. I'll fix this.

[openpaul]

Same bug is in official debian unstable repro. So I can install seafile-cli but get the same error uppon starting.