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

[Richard Decal]

Nope:

~ cat /usr/bin/pitivi
#!/usr/bin/env python2
# Pitivi video editor  [...]

I edited the first line of /usr/bin/pitivi to #!/usr/bin/python, but now I
get this new error:

 ~ pitivi
Failed to initialize modules:  When using gi.repository you must not import
static modules like "gobject". Please change all occurrences of "import
gobject" to "from gi.repository import GObject". See:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709183
ERROR - The following hard dependencies are unmet:
==================================================
- Clutter not found on the system
- ClutterGst not found on the system
- Gst not found on the system
- GES not found on the system
- Gtk not found on the system
- Gio not found on the system
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pitivi", line 135, in <module>
    _check_requirements()
  File "/usr/bin/pitivi", line 111, in _check_requirements
    if not check_requirements():
  File "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pitivi/python/pitivi/check.py", line 219,
in check_requirements
    dependency.check()
  File "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pitivi/python/pitivi/check.py", line 62,
in check
    self.component = self._try_importing_component()
  File "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pitivi/python/pitivi/check.py", line 144,
in _try_importing_component
    from gi.repository import Gst
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/repository/__init__.py", line
25, in <module>
    from ..importer import DynamicImporter
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/importer.py", line 27, in
<module>
    from .module import DynamicModule
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/module.py", line 59, in <module>
    from .types import \
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/types.py", line 44, in <module>
    from . import _propertyhelper as propertyhelper
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/_propertyhelper.py", line 23,
in <module>
    import gi._gi
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/gi/__init__.py", line 39, in
<module>
    raise ImportError(_static_binding_error)
ImportError: When using gi.repository you must not import static modules
like "gobject". Please change all occurrences of "import gobject" to "from
gi.repository import GObject". See:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709183

I'm running Pitivi version 0.93-4.2


Richard Decal
University of Washington
Fairhall Lab

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Sebastian Dröge <slomo at coaxion.net> wrote:

> On Do, 2016-02-04 at 16:06 -0800, Richard Decal wrote:
> > 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?
>
> It should already do that, by having #!/usr/bin/python at the top of
> /usr/bin/pitivi. Doesn't it? It definitely has in newer versions, e.g.
> 0.95.
>
> How does the anaconda python distribution work, how does it install
> stuff on top of Debian and make it available?
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