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Asked: 2012-07-04 04:42:11 +0800 CST

Why can python3 not import gi.repository?

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Python2 does not suffer the same problem.

greg@greg-precise:~$ python3

Python 3.2.3 (default, May  3 2012, 15:51:42) 
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> from gi.repository import Gtk

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named gi.repository

(line breaks added for clarity)

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You should install the correct Python 3 packages, these are prepended with python3- instead of python- .

    This will do the trick:

    sudo apt-get install python3-gi

    Or search this package in your favorite package manager.

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