[Qgis-user] ubuntu 8.04 and python bindings

[Michele Ferretto]

Great!
Yes, the solution is removing the /usr/share/qgis/python/qgis directory 
and I think your hypothesis is absolutely correct!

Many thanks!

Martin Dobias wrote:
> I'm getting the idea what probably happened. There are two ways where
> PyQGIS modules can be put. First possibility (default when compiling
> from source) is that modules are put to
> (prefix)/share/qgis/python/qgis path, second possibility (which is
> more suitable for packagers) is that the modules are put to python's
> site-packages directory (which is often used as place for custom
> python modules).
> 
> I guess previously you have installed qgis 0.9.x (which supposedly
> used first variant) and then installed qgis 0.10. For some reason (I
> expect that once you've run qgis as root) python created __init__.pyc
> in /usr/share/qgis/python/qgis so uninstall of qgis 0.9 didn't delete
> this directory. Now, when qgis 0.10 finds this dir it thinks it
> contains PyQGIS modules which are in fact present elsewhere (but this
> directory has preference). Is my hypothesis correct? ;-)
> 
> Regarding the correction of your problem - the best way is to leave
> contents of /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages untouched and just delete
> /usr/share/qgis/python/qgis directory as root. Please confirm if that
> works for you.
> 
> Bye,
> Martin
>