No Module Named Dbus after Installing Dbus

[ShiromMakkad]

I can't seem to get rid of the "No module named dbus" error. I've install dbus with no erros, and dbus-send is recognized as a command. I've installed spotify-cli-linux both manually and from pip and neither one has solved the problem. Is spotify-cli-linux compatible with the current version of dbus?

My full error Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/shirom/miniconda3/bin/spotifycli", line 5, in <module> from spotifycli.spotifycli import main File "/home/shirom/miniconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/spotifycli/spotifycli.py", line 8, in <module> import dbus ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dbus'

[pwittchen]

I don't know which distro are you using. Have you tried to install python-dbus package with your package manager? This issue is described here: https://github.com/pwittchen/spotify-cli-linux#dbus and usually it should fix the problem.

[ShiromMakkad]

Yes, I used sudo apt-get install python-dbus. One thing to note is that I'm using Windows Subsystem for Linux with Ubuntu 18.04, but that shouldn't matter at all. Also, dbus seems to be installed correctly, so I don't think it's WSL.

[pwittchen]

I don't know if it's gonna work on Windows with Linux subsystem. This tool was made specifically for Linux and may not work on other systems.

[ShiromMakkad]

Windows Subsystem for Linux was designed to emulate Ubuntu as closely as possible, and I have yet to find one command line tool that doesn't work outside of ones that do system monitoring or GUIs. That being said, WSL 2 is releasing in 2020, so that may improve compatibility.

[anavarre]

In trying to install spotify-cli-linux on KDE Neon (which runs Ubuntu under the hood) I also ran into this issue even though I did install python-dbus which, as you can see below, was...already installed.

$ sudo apt-get install python-dbus
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
python-dbus is already the newest version (1.2.6-1).
python-dbus set to manually installed.
Starting pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 0
Starting 2 pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 0
Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

The stack trace is this:

$ spotifycli
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/anavarre/.local/bin/spotifycli", line 11, in <module>
load_entry_point('spotify-cli-linux==1.6.0', 'console_scripts', 'spotifycli')()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 489, in load_entry_point
return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2793, in load_entry_point
return ep.load()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2411, in load
return self.resolve()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2417, in resolve
module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
File "/home/anavarre/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/spotifycli/spotifycli.py", line 8, in <module>
import dbus
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dbus'

Python info

$ python -V
Python 3.7.3
$ pip --version
pip 20.0.2 from /home/anavarre/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip (python 3.7)

[ucalyptus]

@ShiromMakkad solved?

[ucalyptus]

@anavarre same issue with me

[pwittchen]

It happens to some users (usually on Ubuntu). I provided one solution here: https://github.com/pwittchen/spotify-cli-linux#dbus. I don't know what else can be done to solve this.

[ucalyptus]

@pwittchen yeah I tried everything. It works for python2 but not python3

[pwittchen]

I think they messed something up in the recent spotify or dbus release.

When I type:

dbus-send --session --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus --type=method_call --print-reply /org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.ListNames

I cannot see spotify on my computer and now I cannot use spotify both with spotify-cli-linux and playerctl. Spotify app and dbus seem to be very unstable.

[pwittchen]

It'w weird. It started working on my desktop back again, but I don't know the reason. Maybe it's related to updates of some dependencies or system packages. I'm sure it's an issue with system dbus or connecting to dbus by the spotify app - not the script itself.

[attaullah]

It happens if anaconda is installed and by default activated. I tried deactivating anaconda and everything just works fine. My impression is issue of Anaconda with dbus.

[ssboisen]

FYI I had this exact problem but solved it. I looked around and found this post on stackoverflow which instructed me to install a bunch of dependencies

[agucova]

Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy doesn't seem to have the python-dbus package and apparently the package python3-dbus doesn't help, so I'm kinda stuck here.

[pwittchen]

@agucova there must be something wrong with dbus on this Ubuntu version. Unfortunately, I cannot check it at this moment, because I'm using a different distro.

[agucova]

@pwittchen I was able to trace the error to conflicting python installs. I was using Linuxbrew, so using brew install dbus glib and pip install dbus-python worked fine.

[pwittchen]

@agucova ok

[a-t-0]

On command:

sudo apt install python-dbus

I also received error:

E: Package 'python-dbus' has no installation candidate

And as @ssboisen indicated, the commands from this stack post, resolved the issue for me:

sudo apt install build-essential libdbus-glib-1-dev libgirepository1.0-dev
pip install dbus-python

After that, the:

no module named dbus was resolved and I was able to directly run:

spotifycli

without having to install python-dbus

Ubuntu version:

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 21.10
Release:	21.10
Codename:	impish

[a0x14D]

try : pip install dbus-python

@maybe it works

[lypeInvictvs]

Guys, same issue here but I'm using Arch...

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dbus'

Does anyone have the solution?

python-dbus (installed)

[pwittchen]

@FelypeInvictus It's working on Arch. This issue is usually related to lack of dbus/python-dbus, outdated dbus packages in the system or old/wrong python version.

[lypeInvictvs]

@pwittchen Problem solved. I was installing the dependencies and the program using pipx (I can't use pip). I tried installing like this (as is recommended) but was forced to use pipx.

Example:

pip install lyricwikia
error: externally-managed-environment

× This environment is externally managed
╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try 'pacman -S
    python-xyz', where xyz is the package you are trying to
    install.
    
If you wish to install a non-Arch-packaged Python package,
create a virtual environment using 'python -m venv path/to/venv'.
Then use path/to/venv/bin/python and path/to/venv/bin/pip.
    
If you wish to install a non-Arch packaged Python application,
it may be easiest to use 'pipx install xyz', which will manage a virtual environment 
for you. 
Make sure you have python-pipx
installed via pacman.

note: If you believe this is a mistake, 
please contact your Python installation or OS distribution provider. 
You can override this, at the risk of breaking 
your Python installation or OS, 
by passing --break-system-packages.
hint: See PEP 668 for the detailed specification.

I uninstalled everything and installed the dependencies and spotifycli manually (via git clone). Now it works... I can't say precisely what caused this problem, but it appears to be the package manager (pipx).