Terminator

Can't run after manual install (via setup.py) but runs standalone

Asked by Keith

Hi

I'm on a company locked down redhat box (sigh) so can't install via an rpm package.

I've downloaded terminator-1.91.tar.gz and upon extract I can cd to the directory and run ./terminator. That launches fine.

As per the INSTALL file I successfully try run the below to install locally as I don't have access to install to the default location:

./setup.py install --record=install-files.txt --prefix=~/opt/terminator

I then cd to ~/opt/terminator/bin and run: ./terminator only to get this error trying to load a module:

someuser@rhel7[bin] $ ./terminator
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./terminator", line 47, in <module>
    import terminatorlib.optionparse
ImportError: No module named terminatorlib.optionparse

The missing module exists under ~/opt/terminator/lib/python2.7/site-packages/terminatorlib

My python isn't that strong, I'm guessing it's not correctly finding the local module.

Again, terminator does run directly from the extracted archive, I just can't get the installed (via ./setup) version to launch.

Love this tool, it's fantastic, would love to get it running.

Any ideas?
(thanks in advance)

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Stephen Boddy (stephen-j-boddy) said : 		#1

Correct. You need to get PYTHONPATH set. This adds additional paths to those used for imports. More info at:
https://docs.python.org/2/using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONPATH

Not sure exactly how deep a path you need to add, but I think you need to add site-packages, not terminatorlib, because the imports look for terminatorlib as the first part. And you should use an absolute path, because I don't think the tilde is expanded to the ${HOME} by python (it's a bashism I think.)

So in your .bashrc or similar startup settings:
export PYTHONPATH=${HOME}/opt/terminator/lib/python2.7/site-packages

Hope that helps.

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