After upgrade to Xenial Duplicity crashes "No module named lockfile"

[Gaussian]

After upgrade to Xenial Duplicity crashes with:

----------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 45, in <module>
    from lockfile import LockFile as FileLock
ImportError: No module named lockfile
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The solution suggested here https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/1284880
does not work since python-lockfile is installed

[Kenneth Loafman (kenneth-loafman)]

What version of duplicity?

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 12:22 AM, Gaussian <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> After upgrade to Xenial Duplicity crashes with:
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 45, in <module>
> from lockfile import LockFile as FileLock
> ImportError: No module named lockfile
> -----------------------------------------
>
> The solution suggested here
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/1284880
> does not work since python-lockfile is installed
>
> ** Affects: duplicity (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> ** Description changed:
>
> After upgrade to Xenial Duplicity crashes with:
>
> - [code]
> + ----------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> - File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 45, in <module>
> - from lockfile import LockFile as FileLock
> + File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 45, in <module>
> + from lockfile import LockFile as FileLock
> ImportError: No module named lockfile
> - [/code]
> + -----------------------------------------
>
> The solution suggested here
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/1284880
> does not work since python-lockfile is installed
>
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> Title:
> After upgrade to Xenial Duplicity crashes "No module named lockfile"
>
> Status in duplicity package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> After upgrade to Xenial Duplicity crashes with:
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 45, in <module>
> from lockfile import LockFile as FileLock
> ImportError: No module named lockfile
> -----------------------------------------
>
> The solution suggested here
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/1284880
> does not work since python-lockfile is installed
>
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[Gaussian (saku)]

Version 0.7.06 (Under Ubuntu 16.04)

My further investigation found that this is not an Ubuntu bug. This happened because my home directory has an Anaconda installation. Changing the order in the PATH statement to make use of the Ubuntu Python2 installation fixed the problem (i.e. putting /home/$USER/anaconda last). So should be marked invalid.