Closed anonymous83819 closed 12 years ago
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
I could reproduce this on ubuntu lucid 10.04
I did the same test again, no error:
ubuntu 10.04.3 live CD in VirtualBox (ubuntu-10.04.3-desktop-i386.iso)
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
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?
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.
Thanks! That would be good info to add to the install instructions in the documentation.
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!)
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.
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.