gtk-redshift does not start (F13, compiled from source)

[Fabian A. Scherschel]

I've compiled & installed Redshift from source on Fedora 13. The commandline program works, but when I start the GTK applet, it errors out with the following:

[fabsh@serenity ~]$ gtk-redshift
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/gtk-redshift", line 22, in <module>
    from gtk_redshift.statusicon import run
ImportError: No module named gtk_redshift.statusicon

[Jon Lund Steffensen (jonls)]

Then it would have installed the python module in something like "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk_redshift". Please check that it is there and that the path is searched by python. You may have to modify the PYTHONPATH environment variable if you install in /usr/local.

[Fabian A. Scherschel (fabsh)]

Aha. That was indeed the problem. Is the fact that /usr/local/lib/python2.6 is not in the Python path a distro related problem? Should I file it downstream with Fedora?

[Jon Lund Steffensen (jonls)]

Yes it must be distro related. For the record, Ubuntu doesn't look in /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages but in /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages.