Re: Trouble doing a system wide install

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can you verify a couple of things:

1. What OfflineIMAP version do you have?
2. What version of PYthon starts up when you run "python"?

-- John


On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 10:05:50AM -0600, K Barter wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am running a Mandrake 8.2 system, and am having a problem doing a system 
> wide install (single user works fine).
> 
> Here is what I have done:
> run python setup.py -v build
>     python setup.py -v install
> 
> When I execute offlineimap.py I get the following: 
> Traceback (most recentcall last):
>   File "/usr/bin/offlineimap.py", line 20, in ?
>     from offlineimap import imaplib, imaputil, imapserver, repository,
> folder, mbnames, threadutil, version, lo caleval
>   File "/usr/bin/offlineimap.py", line 20, in ?
>     from offlineimap import imaplib, imaputil, imapserver, repository,
> folder, mbnames, threadutil, version, lo caleval
> ImportError: cannot import name imaplib
> 
> Not being a python guy, I have a limited ability to sort this out.  I 
> thought that it might be because the offlineimap directory was not in my 
> sys.path, so I created an offlineimap.pth file in the 
> /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/ directory that pointed to offlineimap, 
> but this did not help.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 

-- 
John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>                       www.complete.org