GeanyPy plugin missing dependency

[detjensrobert]

GeanyPy crashes on enable due to a missing dependency on python-gtk2.

Installing python-gtk2 fixed the crash.

[elextr]

Yes, from Geanypy readme:

Dependencies
------------

To build GeanyPy you need the following dependencies:

* Python 2.6 or 2.7 and development files.
* Geany 1.24+ and development files
* PyGTK 2.0 and development files

[codebrainz]

What is python-gtk2? It looks like the name of a Debian package?

• What was the error message when it crashed? (should show in Help->Debug messages)
• Where did you install GeanyPy from (ie. from source, distro repository, Windows installer)?
• What operating system are you using?
• What version of Geany?
• What version of GeanyPy?

The plugin itself definitively depends on PyGTK+.

[detjensrobert]

D'oh.
Should included that info. Sorry.

OS: Ubuntu 16.04
Geany 1.27
geanypy installed through the repository / geany-plugin-py package

There was no error message generated that I saw, nothing was outputted to Debug Messages. I'm guessing it crashed before it outputted anything.
Running Geany from the command line outputted "Segmentation Fault" to the terminal when it crashed.

[elextr]

@detjensrobert ahh right, that package seems to be missing the dependency on pygtk, which presumably is the package you installed. Geany devs don't make the packages, they are made by a friendly Ubuntu packager. I doubt it will be fixed since Geany is now at version 1.33 and Ubuntu LTS 16.04 was recently replaced by 18.04 LTS. You could check a newer Geany from the PPA https://launchpad.net/~geany-dev/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

[codebrainz]

Running geany -v from the command line, I'd expect some kind of output, most likely a Python ImportError or whatever.

It might be the same as this bug.

[detjensrobert]

Might be. Whatever the problem was, installing that gtk package solved it, so I'm good now.

[codebrainz]

Closing since we don't support the Ubuntu packages here.

@detjensrobert thanks for reporting, hopefully it will help anyone else who encounters this package bug.