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falstaff_ch

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Registered: 2013-06-09

Posts: 26

Starting meld fails

Hi,

Starting meld fails, first I get a message about locale:

$ /usr/bin/meld
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/meld", line 91, in <module>
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
  File "/usr/local/oecore-x86_64/sysroots/x86_64-angstromsdk-linux/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 539, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

I fixed this by change the line locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') to locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'C').

But now I get a different error:

$ /usr/bin/meld
Cannot import: pygtk
No module named pygtk

I already tried reinstalling meld and pygtk, no success so far.

$ pacman -Qi meld pygtk
Name           : meld
Version        : 1.8.4-1
Description    : Visual diff and merge tool
Architecture   : any
URL            : http://meldmerge.org/
Licenses       : GPL
Groups         : None
Provides       : None
Depends On     : pygtk  hicolor-icon-theme  desktop-file-utils
Optional Deps  : pygtksourceview2: syntax highlighting
                 python2-dbus: open a new tab in an already running instance [installed]
                 python2-gconf: gnome integration [installed]
Required By    : None
Optional For   : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces       : None
Installed Size : 2841.00 KiB
Packager       : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <jan.steffens@gmail.com>
Build Date     : Don 23 Jan 2014 00:08:57 CET
Install Date   : Don 01 Mai 2014 09:40:12 CEST
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Validated By   : Signature

Name           : pygtk
Version        : 2.24.0-3
Description    : Python bindings for the GTK widget set
Architecture   : x86_64
URL            : http://www.pygtk.org/
Licenses       : LGPL
Groups         : None
Provides       : None
Depends On     : libglade  python2-cairo  pygobject
Optional Deps  : python2-numpy [installed]
Required By    : gimp  gtk-recordmydesktop  meld  python2-gconf  python2-notify  python2-wnck
Optional For   : avahi  hippo-canvas
Conflicts With : None
Replaces       : None
Installed Size : 18228.00 KiB
Packager       : Eric Belanger <eric@archlinux.org>
Build Date     : Mon 23 Jan 2012 21:48:33 CET
Install Date   : Don 01 Mai 2014 09:40:12 CEST
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Validated By   : Signature

Any idea how to solve this? Is it really a bug? Several people could solve such an issues by re-installing in the past.

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bolorino

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From: Spain

Registered: 2013-06-17

Posts: 18

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Re: Starting meld fails

Does some of this work?

PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python2.7 meld &

dbus-launch meld &

I've had problems launching meld, as well as other Python2 programs, because they were Python3 incompatible.

If the first one works and there are no other conflicts you could set PYTHONPATH.

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Scimmia

Fellow

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 12,084

Re: Starting meld fails

What do your /etc/locale.conf and /etc/locale.gen look like? The output of `locale` and `locale -a`?

Last edited by Scimmia (2014-05-03 19:17:04)