[Python-apps-team] Problem with rdiff-backup on Wheezy 64bit

[Jakub Wilk]

* Frank McNamara <frank at abacus4.com>, 2013-05-03, 15:20:
>I can't get rdiff-backup (rdiff-backup 1.2.8-7 amd64)  to run on my 
>system, just:
>
># rdiff-backup
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup", line 20, in<module>
>    import rdiff_backup.Main
>  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 25, in<module>
>    import Globals, Time, SetConnections, selection, robust, rpath, \
>  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py", line 30, in<module>
>    import Globals, connection, rpath
>  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 539, in<module>
>    import Globals, Time, Rdiff, Hardlink, FilenameMapping, C, Security, \
>  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/Rdiff.py", line 23, in<module>
>    import Globals, log, static, TempFile, rpath, hash
>  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/hash.py", line 27, in<module>
>    import sha
>ImportError: No module named sha

Well, this traceback was produced by your own rdiff-backup installation 
from /usr/local, not the one from Debian package. (Although I don't 
quite understand why importing "sha" failed.)

-- 
Jakub Wilk