what i have done: i fetched the sources with apt-get source revelation
i changed to the directory revelation-0.4.7.orig/src/wrap/gnomemisc/ opened the file gnomemisc.override and i changed the line import gnomeapplet.Applet as PyPanelApplet_Type to import gnome.applet.Applet as PyPanelApplet_Type as described here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/gnomeapplet.patch?bug=376149;msg=27;att=1 then i had to install the package cracklib2-dev after that i made a ./configure make make install and got a working version of revelation in /usr/local/bin thanks again for your help -- revelation: could not import gnome.applet https://launchpad.net/bugs/70399 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
