Bug#813743: pitivi: Fresh install of Pitivi failing to start with missing dependencies

[Richard Decal]

I figured out this has to do with me using the Anaconda Python
distribution. How can I make it so that Pitivi uses /usr/bin/python without
changing my system's default Python env?


Richard Decal
University of Washington
Fairhall Lab

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Sebastian Dröge <slomo at coaxion.net> wrote:

> On Do, 2016-02-04 at 13:13 -0800, Richard Decal wrote:
> > Package: pitivi
> > Version: 0.93-4.2
> > Severity: important
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> > I just installed pitivi on Debian running LXDE. When I try to start
> > it I get
> > this error:
> >
> >  ~ pitivi
> > Failed to initialize modules:  No module named gi.repository
> > [...]
> > Versions of packages pitivi depends on:
> > ii  python-gi                                           3.14.0-1
>
> This is a weird problem. Can you import gi.repository in a Python REPL
> just fine, but it fails for pitivi?
> Probably a problem with that package.
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