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BogdanBiv
Asked: 2015-12-06 23:36:23 +0800 CST

Python Pip install LDTP fails

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I'm on Ubuntu Vivid (15.04) and I have installed Python 2.7 (default) and Python 3.4.

Now, why does pip install ldtp fails to install (fails to create temporary directory /tmp/pip-build-6j6vgvsb/ldtp)?

However, I ran pip install libxml2dom ==> successfully installed package! (just to test pip install works for other packages)

I have tried to manually perform the steps pip performs, but I'm not sure if I arrived at the real problem:

  • I downloaded LDTP using wget
  • I unpackaged it (tar -xvfz LDTP.tar.gz)
  • Ran ./configure and installed the missing libraries (aptitude install libxml2-dev libglib2.0-dev python-gobject-dev)
  • ./configure still complains about the missing cspi-1.0 package
  • I ran pip install LDTP again - no change
  • however, I ran pip install libxml2dom ==> successfully installed package! (just to test pip install works for other packages)
  • Now, CSPI is supposed to be part of an AT-SPI package so I installed gir1.2-atspi-2.0, libatspi2.0-0, libatspi2.0-dev, python-pyatspi, python-pyatspi2, python3-pyatspi, python3-pyatspi2

So pip install fails because:

  • it does not deal with dependencies (libraries XML2, Glib2, GObject, CSPI)
  • under the hood, pip calls ./configure and that fails to build and exits without any warning
  • LDTP ./configure still needs CSPI 1.0 package, all I have installed is AT-SPI 2.0

Log extract:

~/ldtp-1.0.0# ./configure  
checking for CSPI_1_0... configure: error: Package requirements (cspi-1.0 >= 1.2.0) were not met:

No package 'cspi-1.0' found

Please check the detailed log

15.04

1 Answers

  1. Don't know how I missed this:

    $ sudo aptitude install ldtp python-ldtp

    Works like a charm! At least now I understand better how pip install works!

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