What python modules (or packages) does variety need?

Both DominantColors and Util are internal Variety files (see them in variety folder), not external module dependencies. To be fair I haven't personally tried running setup.py, I use Quickly to package it for Ubuntu. You can see the list of external module dependencies in debian/control.

1. Is Quickly available for Debian?
2. If you install the external dependencies (listed in debian/control) you should be able to run Variety even without running setup.py. It is pretty self contained and can run from its sources (just run bin/variety -v). Please tell me if this approach works for you.

I'm not on my dev machine right now, but later on I will try running setup.py myself to see why it can't find DominantColors and Util classes.

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10.11.2012 18:20, Peter Levi kirjoitti:
> 1. Is Quickly available for Debian?

Quickly looking at "apt-cache search quickly" doesn't seem to show it.
It gives long list of other packages. What is the package name in Ubuntu?

> 2. If you install the external dependencies (listed in
> debian/control) you should be able to run Variety even without
> running setup.py. It is pretty self contained and can run from its
> sources (just run bin/variety -v). Please tell me if this approach
> works for you.

I think that I have installed them, but

```
% python setup.py install --user
ERROR:root:Could not find any typelib for Notify
ERROR: Python module DominantColors not found
ERROR:root:Could not find any typelib for Notify
ERROR: Python module Util not found
ERROR:root:Could not find any typelib for Notify
ERROR: Python module DominantColors not found
running install
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 114, in <module>
    cmdclass={'install': InstallAndUpdateDataDirectory}
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DistUtilsExtra/auto.py", line
100, in setup
    distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "setup.py", line 76, in run
    values = {'__variety_data_directory__': "'%s'" % (self.prefix +
'/share/variety/'),
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'NoneType' and 'str'
mkaysi@Devgan ~/Lataukset/variety
% bin/variety
ERROR:root:Could not find any typelib for Notify
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bin/variety", line 43, in <module>
    import variety
  File "/home/mkaysi/Lataukset/variety/variety/__init__.py", line 29,
in <module>
    from variety import VarietyWindow
  File "/home/mkaysi/Lataukset/variety/variety/VarietyWindow.py", line
26, in <module>
    from gi.repository import Gtk, Gdk, GdkPixbuf, GObject, Gio,
Notify # pylint: disable=E0611
ImportError: cannot import name Notify
```

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1. Package in Ubuntu is "quickly"
2. No, don't try to tun setup.py. Just unpack Variety's tar somewhere, install the external dependencies (listed in debian/control), and then directly run bin/variety. Setup.py is something generated and used by Quickly that I'm not sure is supposed to be run manually.

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23.11.2012 15:01, Peter Levi kirjoitti:
> 1. Package in Ubuntu is "quickly"

It doesn't seem to exist in Debian.

```
% LC_ALL=en_EN.UTF-8 apt-cache show quickly
N: Unable to locate package quickly
E: No packages found
```

> 2. No, don't try to tun setup.py. Just unpack Variety's tar
> somewhere, install the external dependencies (listed in
> debian/control), and then directly run bin/variety. Setup.py is
> something generated and used by Quickly that I'm not sure is
> supposed to be run manually.

I have now installed them and variety starts.

Thank you for your help.

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http://mkaysi.github.com/
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User issue is resolved

Full info on how to run from source:

Variety runs on Python 2 (2.7.3+).

1. Download the source archive in tar.gz and unpack it to some directory. Or, alternatively, install Bazaar and run bzr branch lp:variety – this means you will be running from the latest trunk development version (which I try to keep stable).

2. Install the dependencies:

gir1.2-notify-0.7, python-configobj, python-pyexiv2, python-pycurl, gir1.2-gtk-3.0, python-dbus, gir1.2-pango-1.0, gir1.2-glib-2.0, python-imaging, python-cairo, gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-.0, python-bs4, gir1.2-webkit-3.0, yelp, imagemagick, python-lxml, gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1.

gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1 is optional – don’t worry if it is not present in your distribution, it is for Variety’s indicator icon, but Variety will fallback to a classic Gnome status icon if it is not present.

3. Now simply run it. No building or installing is necessary:

cd <folder with Variety's sources>
bin/variety -v