I've got the same problem. I'll let you know when I found a solution.

/the_dude

On 19 Jan, 22:58, PerCentage <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to download the android source onto a new ubuntu 8.10
> installation on a x86 machine. All the steps worked fine until I tried
> toinittherepoclient. I get the following...
>
> ja...@james-desktop:~/mydroid$repoinit-u 
> git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/home/james/bin/repo", line 590, in <module>
>     main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/home/james/bin/repo", line 557, in main
>     _Init(args)
>   File "/home/james/bin/repo", line 176, in _Init
>     _CheckGitVersion()
>   File "/home/james/bin/repo", line 205, in _CheckGitVersion
>     proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 594, in __init__
>     errread, errwrite)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 1153, in
> _execute_child
>     raise child_exception
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
>
> I can't find anyone else having such anrepoerror. I did find an
> obscure message that said the python error might be due to a missing
> readline module. I tried to install lib32readline5-dev as in the
> download instructions and got the following error
>
> ja...@james-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install lib32readline5-dev
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Couldn't find package lib32readline5-dev
>
> Any ideas anybody? I am somewhat new to linux but have had a fair
> amount of unix experience in the past.

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