On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 03:38:53PM +0100, Daniel Rigden wrote: > First let me confess that my problem does not just involved pymol. > However, it is hampering my use of pymol amongst other things and there > must be many python experts who read this list. > > My problem, on a completely fresh Ubuntu 8.04 install, is that python > can find modules when asked to import them. So
Are you saying python cannot find any modules? In that case, the problem does not sound pymol specific at all. > export PYMOL_PATH=/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/pymol/ > export PYTHONHOME=/usr/lib/python2.5 > python2.5 ${PYMOL_PATH}/__init__.py > > gives me > > 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/pymol//__init__.py", line 109, > in <module> > import threading > ImportError: No module named threading Are you running the Ubuntu pymol package, or a self-compiled one? If the former, does simply running "pymol" work or not? Michael