[libhid-discuss] Need help installing on Debian 6 (Squeeze)

[Michael Sandford]

Hi Folks,

I am trying to install libhid on debian 6 and running into some problems.

1.  Dependency on swig and libhid-dev not well outlined, but solved.
2.  Installs to /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages which isn't on 
pythonpath, but also solved.
3.  When trying to use library, get one of two errors:

sandford at debian-test:~/item_entry/src$ python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 27 2010, 00:02:40)
[GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import hid
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named hid
 >>>

So then I do this:
sandford at debian-test:~/item_entry/src$ export 
PYTHONPATH="$PYTHONPATH:/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/"
sandford at debian-test:~/item_entry/src$ python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 27 2010, 00:02:40)
[GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import hid
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named hid
 >>> import libhid
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/libhid/__init__.py", 
line 29, in <module>
     _hid = swig_import_helper()
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/libhid/__init__.py", 
line 25, in swig_import_helper
     _mod = imp.load_module('_hid', fp, pathname, description)
ImportError: libhid.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file 
or directory
 >>>

So then I do this:
sandford at debian-test:~/item_entry/src$ ls 
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/libhid/
_hid.a   hid.pyc  _hid.so.0      hidwrap.pyc  __init__.pyc
_hid.la  hid.pyo  _hid.so.0.0.0  hidwrap.pyo  __init__.pyo
hid.py   _hid.so  hidwrap.py     __init__.py
sandford at debian-test:~/item_entry/src$

Funnily enough, libhid.so.0 is not in that directory.  I am not really 
sure what is going wrong here but I could really use some help to get it 
installed at working.

Thanks,
Mike