Re: Any way to get setup.py to work (Ubuntu 14.04)?

[Scott Kostyshak <skostysh princeton edu>]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com> wrote:
> On 9 April 2014 06:35, Scott Kostyshak <skostysh princeton edu> wrote:
> > Hi and thank you for all of the work on meld. First off, I can run
> > meld just fine from the local directory. Further, there's no
> > particular reason I need to use the development version anyway.
> > However, when I report bugs/ feature requests, I like to make sure
> > they are still valid on the development version
> >
> > I'm trying to install the master branch of the current git on Ubuntu
> > 14.04. The following command runs without error:
> >
> > $ sudo ./setup.py install
> >
> > The following command then gives errors:
> >
> > $ meld
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/local/bin/meld", line 220, in <module>
> >     setup_resources()
> >   File "/usr/local/bin/meld", line 181, in setup_resources
> >     provider.load_from_path(css_file)
> > gi._glib.GError: Failed to import: Error opening file: No such file or
> > directory
>
>
> It's entirely likely that this doesn't work for non-/usr prefix installs. We
> rely on setup.py install installing to what Python thinks sys.prefix is. If
> those don't match, then we can't find our files. You can check sys.prefix
> by:
>
> $ python2
> > > > import sys
> > > > sys.prefix
>
> Or alternatively, add a print line in setup_resources where you're seeing
> the traceback. I'm guessing that it will be /usr, but the install has gone
> to /usr/local.

You are right on both accounts. Installing with --prefix "/usr"
removes the error (and both /usr/local/bin/meld and /usr/bin/meld run
without error)

Thanks,

Scott