tinn...@isbd.co.uk wrote:
> tinn...@isbd.co.uk wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > Using 'help' reveals basic information for evolution but reports "no
> > documentation ...." for evolution.ebook. On the old system (exactly
> > the same version of python, same OS, same everything just about)
> > "help(evolution.ebook)" shows the expected documentation.
> >
> > So, what's wrong, is some python module missing that the evolution
> > module needs? (It's quite likely that there are far more modules
> > installed on the old system than the new one)
> >
> A bit further trying to see what's wrong it seems that Python is
> failing to load .so libraries for some reason on the system where it
> doesn't work.
>
> The initialisation code in the evolution module has:-
>
> import ebook
>
> So, obviously this works on the old system but not on the new system.
> The ebook.so file is present on both systems in exactly the same place.
>
.... and I've finally found what was missing, I tried:-
import evolution.ebook
and it told me that 'import bonobo' was failing. A little searching
and I found that python-gnome2 (which includes bonobo) was installed
on the old system but not on the new one. Installing it has fixed my
problem.
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