ImportError after install on Ubuntu 16.04

[davidjcastner]

$ sudo apt install gitinspector -y -f
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The following additional packages will be installed:
  libjs-excanvas libjs-jquery-flot libjs-jquery-metadata
  libjs-jquery-tablesorter
Suggested packages:
  libjs-jquery-flot-docs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gitinspector libjs-excanvas libjs-jquery-flot libjs-jquery-metadata
  libjs-jquery-tablesorter
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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$ gitinspector 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gitinspector", line 5, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
ImportError: No module named pkg_resources

[adam-waldenberg]

Hi. Seems to be a dependency issue in the debian package? A missing dependency on setuptools/distribute, perhaps? Or maybe there is an issue with setuptools/distribute in your environment.

See if running "sudo apt-get install python-setuptools" solves your problem.

@christiankastner is the official Debian package maintainer, so I'll let him handle the rest of this one.

[davidjcastner]

It was a missing dependency and installing python-setuptools solved the issue

solution:

sudo apt install python-setuptools -y

thanks!

[adam-waldenberg]

Right. However, this should probably be added as a dependency to the package.

[davidjcastner]

whoops sorry about that, thanks for the quick response!

[ckastner]

Hi David, Adam,

I can confirm that the Debian and Ubuntu packages are missing a dependency on python-pkg-resources (which python-setuptools pulled in).

I have just uploaded a fixed version to Debian unstable. Luckily I'm still behind on asking for an Ubuntu sync for #120, so I can cover both with one request.

Thanks for the report!
Christian

[adam-waldenberg]

Great! Good work Christian. Closing the issue.

[mindplay-dk]

I ran into this problem after installing today. Manually installing python-setuptools as directed above fixed it. If this dependency can't be installed automatically, perhaps it should be documented?

[adam-waldenberg]

@mindplay-dk This has been fixed already. If you are runing old debian stable or something based of it it's just the dependencies that are wrong in those distributions.