Quodlibet builds but doesn't run on Slackware64-currrent

tjallen · 01-13-2022, 04:13 PM

I built quodlibet on slackware-current from ponce's SlackBuilds repository. When trying to run it, I get an error

Code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/quodlibet", line 11, in <module>
    from quodlibet.main import main
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/quodlibet/main.py", line 15, in <module>
    from quodlibet.cli import process_arguments, exit_
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/quodlibet/cli.py", line 14, in <module>
    from quodlibet.remote import Remote, RemoteError
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/quodlibet/remote.py", line 12, in <module>
    from quodlibet.util import fifo, print_w
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/quodlibet/util/fifo.py", line 22, in <module>
    from gi.repository import GLib
ImportError: No module named gi.repository

I think what's missing are the files in /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gi/repository, which are in the pygobject3 package in Slackware64 14.2. I haven't tried all that hard to figure out how to build them, but I thought I'd ask here in case anyone has done that already.

kermitdafrog8 · 01-14-2022, 06:44 AM

I have a similar issue with other Python programs. Missing modules error after it builds fine. I had this issue before with another application and fixed by figuring out the missing files was available with slackpkg install-new and installing added python packages. This time that isn't the case for me.

ctrlaltca · 01-14-2022, 12:26 PM

Looks like it's a python3 application, but you're running it with python2.
I didn't test it, but maybe also the slackbuild needs some modification.

tjallen · 01-14-2022, 02:33 PM

The version in ponce's SlackBuilds, 3.9.1, looks to me to be a python2 application. Quod Libet versions 4 and greater seem to be phython3 applications. Quod Libet 3.9.1 runs on Slackware64 14.2, so I was surprised that it built but didn't run on -current.