Meld error "Cannot import: GTK+; No module named repository"

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Zak picture Zak · Dec 21, 2015 · Viewed 9.5k times · Source

Meld used to work on my machine (openSuse Linux 13.1, Python 2.7.6) but after having trouble with Spyder (like it refusing to actually run any scripts), I uninstalled a large number of things, then slowly brought them back again.

Since then, meld does not work anymore. I keep getting this error message

> meld
Cannot import: GTK+
No module named gi

I was able to solve that by installing gi:

> pip install gi

Now the error is replaced by:

> meld
Cannot import: GTK+
No module named repository

... and here is a similar question where uninstalling gi apparently helped? I'm confused. I did try uninstalling it again but that just brought me back to the previous error (duh!).

Any ideas?

Answer

Zak picture Zak · Dec 22, 2015

OK, that was not obvious:

gi.repository is not part of gi but its own thing. That's why gi should not be installed (thank you Moose).

This article then pointed me to a possible source, python-gobject. However, I already had that installed. So I installed other things that looked similar, and the python-gobject-cairo package ( Python 2.7, openSuse 13.1) did the trick. Seems like someone overlooked a dependency for Meld...

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