import error on fresh install

[anonymous83819]

line 2 of abstractdisplay.py should be "import os.path as path" instead of "import path from path". I fixed my copy locally and it is working fine, but I just wanted to contribute the fix upstream so all can benefit.

[ponty]

I could not reproduce the import error on fresh install.

My test:

xubuntu 10.10 live CD in VirtualBox

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools sudo apt-get install xvfb sudo apt-get install xserver-xephyr sudo apt-get install tightvncserver sudo easy_install pyvirtualdisplay

python -m pyvirtualdisplay.examples.lowres -> OK: abiword is displayed inside xephyr

[kisoku]

I could reproduce this on ubuntu lucid 10.04

[ponty]

I did the same test again, no error:

ubuntu 10.04.3 live CD in VirtualBox (ubuntu-10.04.3-desktop-i386.iso)

commands inside virtualbox

enable 'universe' in repositories

terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
sudo apt-get install xvfb
sudo apt-get install xserver-xephyr
sudo apt-get install abiword
sudo easy_install pyvirtualdisplay

python -m pyvirtualdisplay.examples.lowres

-> OK: abiword is displayed inside xephyr

[aculich]

What package is the path module a part of? I can't seem to find it anywhere on my debian system with all the basic python debian packages installed. The only reference I've been able to find to it is here:

http://wiki.python.org/moin/PathModule

And then after further digging I found that it is part of the spyderlib package as one of their external utilities, so on my system I can do:

from spyderlib.utils.external.path import path

But this is not a standard python package as far as I can tell. Where is it on your Ubuntu systems?

[kisoku]

I believe the implementation of path that is being used here is path.py by Michael Gusarov. You can find it on PYPI and Github

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/path.py/2.2.2 https://github.com/dottedmag/path.py

The path.py module is not packaged on Ubuntu Lucid. I wound up making a custom ubuntu package for this at work. Unfortunately I cannot share this package with you, however it is reasonably trivial to make your own package from the pypi distribution using the py2dsc tool from the python-stdeb package.

[aculich]

Thanks! That would be good info to add to the install instructions in the documentation.

[ponty]

1. It may be easy to find the problem if you attach the standard bug report informations:
   • system info
   • how you tried to install
   • log
2. I tested the documented installation process on 2 systems without error. You can reproduce it using my instructions in previous comments.
3. path.py dependency is a python package not a debian package. Dependencies are defined in pavement.py as install_requires. They can be checked in pavement.py or online on PyPM (http://code.activestate.com/pypm/pyvirtualdisplay/). All dependencies are normal python packages, but they should be installed by easy_install automatically. These are all standard methods.

To install path.py separately: easy_install path.py (this is not needed for PyVirtualDisplay installation!)

[aculich]

Ah, yes, you're right.... I see the dependency listed in pavement.py now. The problem is that because I checked out from github I did not intend to install the package with easy_install since I did not actually want to install it, but rather work on the checked out code. Seems easy_install needs some options like cabal has for --only-deps and --upgrade-deps for this kind of case.

Thanks for the help.