[ale] No module named xdg.BaseDirectory

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Mon Dec 22 10:50:17 EST 2008


Install the 'python-xdg' package.

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2008/12/22 Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm curious... what kind of questions should we ask?  Is the rule of thumb
> that you contact the project first, wait a couple days (if necessary) and
> then take your questions to the LUG?  I'm having a problem loading Gwibber.
> It used to work just fine, but I guess there have been some conflicting
> updates with Fedora 10 that's now causing it to not load.  I get this error
> when I try and load it.
>
> [marc at unicron ~]$ gwibber
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/gwibber", line 22, in <module>
>     from gwibber.client import GwibberClient
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 12, in
> <module>
>     import xdg.BaseDirectory, resources
> ImportError: No module named xdg.BaseDirectory
> [marc at unicron ~]$ rpm -aq gwibber
> gwibber-0.7.2-1.156bzr.fc10.noarch
> [marc at unicron ~]$
>
>
> I've asked a question on Launchpad too, just in case.
> https://answers.launchpad.net/gwibber/+question/55179
>
> --
> Marc F.


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