Bug#643782: ranger: Cannot be launched; ImportError raised
Hi Raphael, * Raphael Plasson rplas...@gmail.com, 2011-09-29, 18:06: ranger can actually be launched normally if the link /usr/bin/python is changed, and point to /usr/bin/python/2.6 instead of the now default /usr/bin/python/2.7. Please never ever change the /usr/bin/python symlink destination manually. More importantly, please don't post such ideas to BTS, because some people might follow such advice, breaking their systems horribly. (Yes, it happened it the past...) Thanks. If you want to run a program with non-standard Python version, this should do the trick most of the time: python2.6 /usr/bin/ranger -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#643782: ranger: Cannot be launched; ImportError raised
Hi Roman, * Roman Z. rom...@lavabit.com, 2011-11-10, 14:09: ranger can't run if it can't find the ranger python module. It must be in one of the PYTHONPATH directories. On my install, ranger was installed to /usr/share/pyshared Which is completely normal. which is not in PYTHONPATH so ranger will not find it. It would be a task for postinst script to make them appear there. (But the package was broken, and was explicitly declaring that is supports only 2.6, so it didn't work.) It ought to be put at /usr/lib/pythonX/dist-packages/ instead with X being your python version. To fix this, create a link from the place ranger was installed to some place in your PYTHONPATH, for example: ln -s /usr/share/pyshared/ranger /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ranger Do not ever do this. More importantly, do not post such ideas to the BTS, because some people might follow your advice, breaking their systems horribly in a way that is very hard to debug. (Yes, it happened in the past...) Thanks. [...] ImportError: No module named gui.defaultui This is caused due to removal of the empty file ranger/gui/__init__.py, which is required for python to recognize that this directory is a python module. Lack of __init__.py files in /usr/share/pyshared is also completely normal. -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#643782: ranger: Cannot be launched; ImportError raised
Dear fellows, ranger can't run if it can't find the ranger python module. It must be in one of the PYTHONPATH directories. On my install, ranger was installed to /usr/share/pyshared which is not in PYTHONPATH so ranger will not find it. It ought to be put at /usr/lib/pythonX/dist-packages/ instead with X being your python version. To fix this, create a link from the place ranger was installed to some place in your PYTHONPATH, for example: ln -s /usr/share/pyshared/ranger /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ranger To determine where ranger was installed, run: dpkg --listfiles ranger | grep fm.py | grep -o .\*ranger To determine where you can put ranger so it works, run: python -c 'import sys; print(\n.join(sys.path))' I noticed this additional bug: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/ranger, line 59, in module sys.exit(ranger.main()) File /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ranger/core/main.py, line 29, in main from ranger.core.fm import FM File /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ranger/core/fm.py, line 30, in module from ranger.gui.defaultui import DefaultUI ImportError: No module named gui.defaultui This is caused due to removal of the empty file ranger/gui/__init__.py, which is required for python to recognize that this directory is a python module. If this occurs for you, run: touch /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ranger/gui/__init__.py (replace /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ with whatever directory ranger was installed to.) Raphael Plasson wrote: I however do not know where the incompatibility is coming from... ranger is usually installed for one particular python version (although being compatible with all python versions since 2.6) because Python 2.7 does NOT look for modules in /usr/lib/python2.6. As a result, you need to reinstall ranger when you update python. Regards, Roman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#643782: ranger: Cannot be launched; ImportError raised
Hello, I can reproduce the bug. Linking python to python2.6 instead of python2.7 works indeed. Cheers, -- Steve -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages ranger depends on: ii file5.08-1 ii less444-1 ii python 2.7.2-8 ii python-support 1.0.14 ranger recommends no packages. Versions of packages ranger suggests: pn atoolnone pn caca-utils none pn elinks-lite none pn highlightnone -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#643782: ranger: Cannot be launched; ImportError raised
Package: ranger Version: 1.4.3-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hello, ranger cannot be launched since the default python switched from 2.6 to 2.7. After the python upgrade, calling ranger in commandline gives: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/ranger, line 58, in module import ranger ImportError: No module named ranger ranger can actually be launched normally if the link /usr/bin/python is changed, and point to /usr/bin/python/2.6 instead of the now default /usr/bin/python/2.7. I however do not know where the incompatibility is coming from... Regards, Raphael -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages ranger depends on: ii file5.08-1 ii less444-1 ii python 2.7.2-7 ii python-support 1.0.14 ranger recommends no packages. Versions of packages ranger suggests: ii atool0.38.0-1 ii caca-utils 0.99.beta17-2.1 ii elinks-lite 0.12~pre5-4 ii highlight3.5-3 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
