ImportError: No module named cluttergtk

[ThGravo]

Even though all dependencies are installed, I get the following error (with Ubuntu 9.10 and Gentoo (Python 2.6.4), both amd64):

$ ./entertainer
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./entertainer", line 8, in <module>
    main()
  File "/home/flux/codework/entertainer/entertainerlib/frontend/__init__.py", line 13, in main
    import cluttergtk
ImportError: No module named cluttergtk

[Matt Layman (mblayman)]

ThGravo, thanks for the report. This is sort of a duplicate of Bug #441515, but I want to leave it marked as valid in case other try to file something similar (because this is probably the first symptom of the root cause).

The root cause is that we have not ported the code to use clutter 1.0 which is now in the Ubuntu repositories. The current code is written to work with clutter 0.8 and clutter did some API changes between 0.8 and 1.0.

[Matt Layman (mblayman)]

ThGravo, just to update you. I just finished a branch that should fix the bulk of the problems that were affecting Entertainer by using clutter 1.0. Your problem with cluttergtk not existing for Gentoo will remain because the clutter team split cluttergtk and cluttergst out of the core of clutter.

cluttergtk and cluttergst are still required to get Entertainer to run and you'll have to work with your distribution to get them (http://git.clutter-project.org/?r=bindings/pyclutter-gst and http://git.clutter-project.org/?r=bindings/pyclutter-gtk from the project's git repository). For Ubuntu users, I hope that we'll eventually produce a package that has our own dependencies for now, and then get the packages into the repositories for Lucid.

[Matt Layman (mblayman)]

In order to run Entertainer, users will need to use pyclutter-gtk and pyclutter-gst. For Ubuntu users, Francesco Marella has made these available in his PPA (https://launchpad.net/~francesco-marella/+archive/ppa). The Entertainer code has been fixed for clutter 1.0 to support the correct import names, but the imports won't be available until those two packages are installed.

[Matt Layman (mblayman)]

Assuming Arch users can install pyclutter-gtk and pyclutter-gst, this problem should be resolved for users who are using the future branch.

I don't know how Arch uses Launchpad so this won't actually fix their package. The Arch maintainer of the Entertainer package will have to pull the code from lp:entertainer/future.