specto package doesn't install correctly

[morgan]

Binary package hint: specto

Using Kubuntu 8.04.1 i386

After installing package "specto":

Program doesn't work from K menu (Utilities>>specto)

From command line:

:~$ specto
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/specto", line 37, in <module>
    from spectlib.main import Specto
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/spectlib/main.py", line 35, in <module>
    import spectlib.util as util
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/spectlib/util.py", line 25, in <module>
    from spectlib.specto_gconf import Specto_gconf
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/spectlib/specto_gconf.py", line 25, in <module>
    import gconf
ImportError: No module named gconf
:~$

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Strange, can you open a terminal and tell us what is the output of this command:

apt-cache policy python-gconf

?

[Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo)]

my guess is that the package pulls the dependency "gconf2", but not "python-gconf". I'm pretty sure that installing python-gconf would solve your problem, and if that's the case, someone should make the package dependencies reflect that.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

It does that already, this is why I'm asking.

[morgan (morgan-centralnorthside)]

Sorry about this, but it looks like the problem was on my end: dpkg didn't exit cleanly.

I ran dpkg --configure -a and now it works as expected. Sorry about that, you can close the bug.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

At your service.