Howto: Fix PyPanel in Edgy

[fuscia]

this solution was posted by K.Mandla in the random openbox chatter thread - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=190476

it was originally posted by a dr.zombo on K.Mandla's blog (this is already starting to sound like one of those 'latest news on e17' threads. "oh, it was going great for about 20 minutes, last thursday."). anyway, here's that original quote...

I got the same problem with pypanel for the last 2 hours, but then I did the following trick:

do an apt-get remove python-xlib

clear all dependencies for python-xlib:

apt-get install debhelper python-dev python-xlib libx11-dev libxft-dev libxpm-dev libimlib2-dev dpatch sed python-central

grab it from here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/python-xlib/
unpack, and install it with python setup.py install

and finaly cd to pypanel and python setup.py install
taddaaa it works!!

cheers, dr.zombo

of course, you must do sudo apt-get remove python-xlib.

i don't know what he meant by "clear all dependencies for python-xlib". this must have happened automatically, somehow, as i didn't do it.

worked for me.

[K.Mandla]

Since I'm a co-conspirator ... yes, it worked for me as well. However, not without also downloading the source for PyPanel and installing that via sudo python setup.py install as well.

So in short: I removed python-xlib and pypanel from the repositories with

sudo apt-get remove python-xlib pypanel

Then I installed the packages listed above, with the exception of python-xlib (?!) and sed (which is part of ubuntu-minimal ... again: ?!) with

sudo aptitude install debhelper python-dev libx11-dev libxft-dev libxpm-dev libimlib2-dev dpatch python-central

Then download the python-xlib tarball from http://sourceforge.net/projects/python-xlib/ and the PyPanel tarball from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pypanel/. Decompress both.

First move into the python-xlib folder and install with sudo python setup.py install. Then jump to the PyPanel folder and install it as well with sudo python setup.py install.

Now, when you enter the command pypanel & in a terminal window or from within your .xinitrc file, the panel should start.

Not bad for a random blog comment.

[apoth]

Thanks, I followed K.Mandla's comments and it worked a treat.

[fobnicat]

I followed these directions..b ut now when i go into terminal and enter

fobnicat@fobnicat-desktop:~$ pypanel

my whole computer goes crazy 100% CPU and the new pypanel toolbar is blinking

any help?

[dbbolton]

and finaly cd to pypanel

Then jump to the PyPanel folder

where is this folder exactly ?

[regomodo]

cheers for the tip k.mandla. Pypanel refused to work for me in feisty