On 8 May 2016 at 08:59, Britton Kerin <[email protected]> wrote: > After trying ton install meld 3.16.0 like this: > > python setup.py install --prefix=/home/bkerin/local > > I get this: > > $ meld > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/home/bkerin/local/bin/meld", line 73, in <module> > import meld.conf > ImportError: No module named meld.conf > 1 $ > > Just copying bin/meld to where I want it causes the same failure at run time. > > The sources don't seem to contain an explicit meld.conf. Things do > work when I run it > in place though, so apparently there's some magic going on that I > don't know about. > > In general, the install directions could be better and it would be > useful. They refer to standard > distutils, but I have no idea about those. I use python for meld and > that's it. I had trouble > finding --prefix because apparently --help doesn't tell you about that > until you include the > install command. And of course it still doesn't work for me, probably > for some stupid reason.
My best guess is that you don't have the site-packages folder under ~/local (probably ~/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages) in your python path. You can add with the PYTHONPATH environment variable. The usual local install prefix is ~/.local, which should (depending on your distribution I guess) already be in your python path. > meld is so wildly popular now it's not good to assume everyone who > would like to build the latest version knows anything about python. The global install instructions are there and should work, and for per-user use, Meld runs just fine when run in place. cheers, Kai _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
