pulseaudio-dlna
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ImportError: No module named gi.repository
Steps to reproduce
virtualenv -p python2.7 ~/venv
~/venv/bin/python ./setup.py install
~/venv/bin/pulseaudio-dlna
Result
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/jdoe/venv/pulseaudio-dlna/bin/pulseaudio-dlna", line 11, in <module>
load_entry_point('pulseaudio-dlna==0.5.2', 'console_scripts', 'pulseaudio-dlna')()
File "/home/jdoe/venv/pulseaudio-dlna/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pulseaudio_dlna-0.5.2-py2.7.egg/pulseaudio_dlna/__main__.py", line 157, in main
import pulseaudio_dlna.application
File "/home/jdoe/venv/pulseaudio-dlna/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pulseaudio_dlna-0.5.2-py2.7.egg/pulseaudio_dlna/application.py", line 31, in <module>
import pulseaudio_dlna.plugins.dlna
File "/home/jdoe/venv/pulseaudio-dlna/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pulseaudio_dlna-0.5.2-py2.7.egg/pulseaudio_dlna/plugins/dlna/__init__.py", line 26, in <module>
import pulseaudio_dlna.plugins.dlna.ssdp.listener
File "/home/jdoe/venv/pulseaudio-dlna/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pulseaudio_dlna-0.5.2-py2.7.egg/pulseaudio_dlna/plugins/dlna/ssdp/listener.py", line 20, in <module>
from gi.repository import GObject
ImportError: No module named gi.repository
Possible Cause
I suspect this is because #253 didn't add PyGObject
as a dependent pypi package
Partial Workaround
In trying to workaround this, I also found that in order to install PyGObject
on Ubuntu 18.04 I had to do the following in response to errors during ~/venv/bin/pip install PyGObject
Cairo
Error : No package 'cairo' found
Solution : sudo apt install libcairo2-dev
gobject-introspection-1.0
Error : Package gobject-introspection-1.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path
Solution : sudo apt install libgirepository1.0-dev