[Qgis-user] ubuntu 8.04 and python bindings

[Michele Ferretto]

Martin Dobias wrote:
>>>> ls /usr/share/qgis/python
>>>> plugins qgis
>>> and contents of /usr/share/qgis/python/qgis? :-)
>> ls /usr/share/qgis/python/qgis/
>> __init__.pyc
> 
> So here's the problem - in that directory you should have also core.so
> and gui.so files which are python modules for QGIS. Please paste here
> the contents of the qgis package, you can do it like this:
> dpkg -L qgis
> 
> But I'm wondering why importing the bindings doesn't fail if you set
> python path to /usr/share/qgis. Maybe the python modules are installed
> in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages or
> /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages. Can you check it? (they're
> present if there's a subdirectory called "qgis" and it has several
> files inside: __init__.py, core.so, gui.so
> 

Yes! in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/qgis there are all the files 
mentioned above; I copied these files in /usr/share/qgis/python/qgis/ 
just to try and now that's all right, I can use the python plugins.

which is the path to change without having to copy the files?

And...many thanks Martin!