apturl fails with ImportError

[G Harmer]

Binary package hint: apturl

I tried and failed to get a version of freeciv from playdeb with Firefox giving me an unrecognised protocol error as reported in other bugs eg 476853 so I tried the Firefox about:config mods suggested in http://hubpages.com/hub/Ubuntu-Resolving-AptURL-Open-With-Error but without success.
Further research suggested apturl should work from the command line with the following result.

graham@BESSIE:~$ apturl apt:2vcard
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apturl", line 34, in <module>
    from AptUrl.AptUrl import AptUrlController
ImportError: No module named AptUrl.AptUrl

The result is identical with or without a url parameter, no matter what I throw at apturl I get the same result.

I have completely removed and reinstalled apturl using Synaptic but no difference.

The about:config mods to Firefox resulted in a "Launch Application" dialogue box appearing but choosing /usr/bin/apturl resulted in sweet nothing. I don't know enough about Ubuntu to know where any errors reported from this might go. Using the Log File Viewer revealed nothing.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: apturl 0.3.3ubuntu1.2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: apturl
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-19-generic i686

[Ray Foulkes (ray-foulkes)]

AptUrl is not runnable for me. The reason is that it tries to import 2 modules one from AptUrl (.py that is) and one from AptUrl/gtk

They are to be found (at least on my copy of Ubuntu 9.04) in /usr/share/pyshared/. The current path is:
    '/home/ray',
    '/usr/lib/python2.6',
    '/usr/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2',
    '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk',
    '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old',
    '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload',
    '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages',
    '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PIL',
    '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gst-0.10',
    '/var/lib/python-support/python2.6',
    '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gtk-2.0',
    '/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gtk-2.0',
    '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages',
which you might notice does not include /usr/share/pyshared/ hence neither module is found, hence AptUrl fails - though where the error message goes I have no idea. Nor do I know the correct place to include the relevant search path for python.

Thus, there is a little analysis of the problem, though not the solution.

[Ray Foulkes (ray-foulkes)]

I should have added that this is on Ubuntu 9.04 fully patched on an eeepc.