Re: Problem using meld on Ubuntu

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

2010/1/2 neofelis diardi <n diardi gmail com>:
> Hi list,
>
> it's always been a problem to actually use meld on Linux for as long as i
> have used meld, but once in a while it works. It's a very nice program but
> updates and Python versions interfere with it always. Mostly the problem is
> with pygtk, or python-gtk, or python-gtk2 or gtk++, something meant to make
> it easy to use python bindings to gtk (?).
>
> What can i do to make it run when i get:
>
> "No module named pygtk
>  Meld requires pygtk 2.8.0 or higher."?
>
> When i check the version number of pygtk it's pygtk-2.17.0.tar.bz2, so
> somehow this is a different pygtk?
> There is so much information out there and nothing seems to work ... please
> help, i love meld .. when it actually starts up that is

So wherever you have pygtk installed, meld isn't finding it. Did you
just install the meld and python-gtk2 (this is what Debian/Ubuntu call
pygtk) distribution packages?

Kai