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cobbmic

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Registered: 2015-02-17

Posts: 4

[SOLVED] ImportError: No module named pygtk

I have installed Dropbox from the AUR. Everything has gone well until I tried to start dropbox. It then says:

Starting Dropbox...
The Dropbox daemon is not installed!
Run "dropbox start -i" to install the daemon"

When I run "dropbox start -i", I get: (I actually run "dropbox-cli start -i," but before I installed dropbox-cli I was having the same problems with the dropbox command:)

Starting Dropbox...Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/dropbox-cli", line 1259, in start
     download()
File "/usr/bin/dropbox-cli", line 280, in download
     import pygtk
ImportError: No module named pygtk

From what I've read, this is due to the program expecting python or python2, but  since I have python3 installed, then python links to python3. And pygtk doesn't exist in python3.
This might or might not be the problem. Regardless, I cannot figure out how to fix this problem.

Anyone know how to fix this? I really need to use DropBox.

EDIT: I found an article describing what to install and in what order to fix this.

Last edited by cobbmic (2015-02-17 19:05:32)

rebootl

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Registered: 2012-01-10

Posts: 431

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Re: [SOLVED] ImportError: No module named pygtk

Hello. Glad you fixed it.

Please give us at least a link to the "article". For others who are interested in this.
I quickly search beforehand but couldn't find a solution right away.

Thanks!

Edit: wording

Last edited by rebootl (2015-02-17 22:07:31)

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Hargenrader

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Registered: 2016-03-30

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] ImportError: No module named pygtk

I ran into a similar problem today when compiling Dropbox and it required python2 but I had python3 installed.

The article here shows you a couple of ways to address programs/scripts that require different versions of python.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Python#Python_2

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,612

Re: [SOLVED] ImportError: No module named pygtk

Welcome to Arch Linux.

Thank you for the relevant link, but be sure to check the age of threads.  I hope the original poster is not looking for an answer a year later..
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … bumping.22

Closing this old thread

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