I am running an application in a virtual environment that needs access to DBus (to interact with the Network Manager, mainly).
I tried to install Dbus-Python with easyinstall and pip, but both fail.
When I try to do this:
(myvirtualenv)borrajax@borrajax-computer:~/Documents/Projects/VirtualEnvs/current_env$ bin/pip install dbus-python
Pip yells at me with:
Downloading/unpacking dbus-python
Downloading dbus-python-1.1.1.tar.gz (596kB): 596kB downloaded
Running setup.py egg_info for package dbus-python
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 16, in <module>
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/borrajax/Documents/Projects/VirtualEnvs/current_env/build/dbus-python/setup.py'
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 16, in <module>
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/borrajax/Documents/Projects/VirtualEnvs/current_env/build/dbus-python/setup.py'
----------------------------------------
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /home/borrajax/Documents/Projects/VirtualEnvs/current_env/build/dbus-python
Storing complete log in /home/borrajax/.pip/pip.log
I have had some issues with the python dbus bindings and their "accessibility" from my Python modules in the past, so I don't really know what may be the best way to set Dbus-Python in a virtual environment. Has anyone successfully achieved this? Or does anyone have an idea on how to do this?
When pip tries to install a package, it looks for setup.py, which dbus-python doesn't have, so you'll have to download the source and compile it manually. Shouldn't be too hard:
PYTHON=python3.3 ./configure --prefix=/tmp/dbus-python
make
make install
then you can move the compiled files to your virtualenv.
edit: starting with dbus-python-1.2.2 (released 2016-02-22) dbus-python has a setup.py, so pip should be able to install it