ImportError: No module named gi

Tuxqi · 04-12-2022, 08:32 AM

I'm on Slackware 15 and I'm trying to run GameConqueror the GUI for scanmem.

It doesn't run because it can't seem to find the gi module for Python.

From my limited understanding it's part of the python-gobject package which is installed and I can see it's files and files for the gi module.

Maybe I broke something whilst installing other stuff.

giomat · 04-12-2022, 08:39 AM

I had this issue yesterday trying to install variety from SBo

teckk · 04-12-2022, 09:51 AM

Is that a python2 or python3 program. They import gi differently. Or if you are trying to run a python2 script with python3 you will get that error right off the bat. Can you look at the source.

Is it this?
https://github.com/scanmem/scanmem
https://github.com/scanmem/scanmem/b...meConqueror.py

That's about all that I can tell you without knowing more.

Tuxqi · 04-12-2022, 06:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by teckk

Is that a python2 or python3 program. They import gi differently. Or if you are trying to run a python2 script with python3 you will get that error right off the bat. Can you look at the source.

Is it this?
https://github.com/scanmem/scanmem
https://github.com/scanmem/scanmem/b...meConqueror.py

That's about all that I can tell you without knowing more.

yes that's the program.

I used the slackbuild to build/install it.

ponce · 04-13-2022, 05:18 AM

that happens because /usr/share/gameconqueror/GameConqueror.py points to the wrong python interpreter (python2): just edit the first line of that file so that it reads

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

ponce · 04-13-2022, 05:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by giomat

I had this issue yesterday trying to install variety from SBo

in this case you should ping the maintainer for an update...

BW-userx · 05-17-2023, 06:14 PM

here it is may 2023 and this same issue persists as I just installed variety and it still shows that error.

Code:

$ variety
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/variety", line 38, in <module>
    import variety
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/variety/__init__.py", line 106, in <module>
    import gi
ImportError: No module named gi

looks like this app is out for slackware

fourtysixandtwo · 05-17-2023, 11:41 PM

The maintainer doesn't look to be active anymore and a python3-variety slackbuild should be created to replace it and this one removed, preferably by someone who uses it.

https://github.com/varietywalls/variety (0.8.10 was released in Jan.)