DIE fails to load on ida for linux

[crowell]

import of networkx fails

[crowell]

also confirmed failure on OS X

[tmr232]

Did you install the requirements? (using pip install -r requirements.txt in DIE's top directory) It should solve it.

[crowell]

@tmr232 yes i did this, nope it didn't solve the issue

[ynvb]

I have never tested it on OSX\Linux versions of IDA. Have yo tries installing networkx manually?

[crowell]

@ynvb yes, i installed from pip (system python) pip (virtualenv), and from the ubuntu repository.

none of them works.

I can import networkx from my python shell normally though

>>> import networkx as nx
>>> 

[ltfish]

I think it's because your IDA installation is using the Python bundled with IDA itself, not the global one. if that's the case, import networkx will fail in IDAPython - since you didn't install networkx for the bundled Python (with IDA).

Check out ~/ida-6.x/python to see if that's the case. You may simply symlink your installation of networkx to '~/ida-6.x/python/networkx`, and see if the problem solves.

This was a big pain when we were developing idalink :-(

[tmr232]

This solution had two main issues:

1. It will require adding a similar symlink to each and every dependency;
2. If the system python is not compatible to IDA's version it might cause weird errors.

If you have a compatible python version install, you can probably use one of the following solutions (untested as I do not have IDA for Linux):

1. Symlink the entire site-packages directory, or use a .pth to link it;
2. Use a virtualenv like script to "activate" IDA's python environment, then use pip normally.

I hope this helps.

[crowell]

with virtualenv + this plugin i got it working, debugging throws some errors about numbers being too large to convert to int, I'll try to dig a bit and give you a better bug report when i have time to dig into it.