Installing dblatex from the latest MacPorts

This entry was posted by tbielawa on Friday, 4 December, 2009 at

I ran into this issue while installing dblatex (0.2.10) from the most recent MacPorts tree today:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/local/bin/dblatex", line 16, in <module>
    from dbtexmf.dblatex import dblatex
ImportError: No module named dbtexmf.dblatex

I got past it by exporting PYTHONPATH=/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages, but clearly this was not optimal. I was about to file a bug report about the issue but before I did that I read their new ticket guidelines which requested the full build log be included in the ticket.

In the build log was the solution. I would have missed it had my shell scrollback not been set to unlimited. Nestled a good 182 lines back in my buffer was this little message:

--->  Installing python26 @2.6.4_0+darwin
--->  Activating python26 @2.6.4_0+darwin
 
To fully complete your installation and make python 2.6 the default, please run
 
sudo port install python_select
sudo python_select python26

I did as instructed, and sure enough, dblatex started working! I just wanted to post this on the blog in case anyone else ran into this and missed it like I did.

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4 Responses to “Installing dblatex from the latest MacPorts”

  1. Andreas
    December 22, 2009 at 10:44 am

    Thanks, I’m one of the guys who ran into this. Saved my day.

  2. tbielawa
    December 22, 2009 at 1:17 pm

    I’m glad the post helped!

  3. lb
    April 8, 2010 at 4:45 am

    Actually saved my week.

  4. Bruce
    May 19, 2010 at 11:35 am

    I’m glad the post helped!


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