Re: [Libvir] Still can't run a simple python test libvirt !

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 04:03:43PM +0100, Omer Khalid wrote: > Hi, > > I am still unable to run my simple libvirt test! > > I checked out the code from libvirt cvs and following the instructions till > 'make install'. It all went well. So then I ran my simply python test, as > shown here (http://www.libvirt.org/python.html). It keeps on giving me the > following error. > > [root@lcgctb9 libvirt]# python testLibvirt.py > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "testLibvirt.py", line 1, in ? > import virt > ImportError: No module named virt The python modiule is called 'libvirt' not 'virt'. > > I have verified that the library is linked by the following: > > [root@lcgctb9 libvirt]# pkg-config libvirt --libs > -L/usr/local/lib -lvirt -lxenstore > > [root@lcgctb9 libvirt]# pkg-config --variable=prefix libvirt > /usr/local Since you installed into /usr/local, I suspect you'll need to also set PYTHONPATH environment variable to tell python to look there for modules it loads. eg export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|