Howto install Pithos in Fedora 14

[Deb]

If you enjoy listening to Pandora but hate the Web app. Then you might like Pithos. This is a launchpad project by Kevin Mehall- and he has written a nifty little python program. He has provided a .deb package but I did not find a .rpm (may be I have not searched hard!)

However the building and installng the package as described here works on F14 with the following modifications.

$ su
#yum install python pyxdg pygobject2 gstreamer-python notify-python gtk2-python dbus-python gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad python-distutils-extra

Then,

cd ~/Download
bzr branch lp:pithos pithos
cd pithos
sudo python setup.py install --prefix=/usr

First I tried /usr/local/ as described in Kevin's page. But due to a bug I was ending up with

ImportError: no module named pithos

This is due to "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages" not being in the PYTHONPATH. If you would like to run setup.py with --prefix=/usr/local then add

sys.path.append("/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/")

at line 21 of /usr/local/bin/pithos. You can also achive the same effect by adding

export PYTHONPATH="/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH"

in your .bashrc file.

[don762003]

I followed your instructions here everything went well I just had to do add a couple of other packages though. But when I try to run pithos I get


** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GstObject)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/pithos", line 51, in <module>
from pithos import AboutPithosDialog, PreferencesPithosDialog, StationsDialog
File "/usr/bin/pithos.py", line 51, in <module>
from pithos import AboutPithosDialog, PreferencesPithosDialog, StationsDialog
ImportError: cannot import name AboutPithosDialog


On fedora 16

[DazedSpy]

Any chance you could rehash the instructions fully (including the ones posted on the pithos page) on here and for f16?

[matth45]

I just came across this, and I'd like to note that I have pithos working under f16. The only big difference from the above instructions is that they seem to have moved to git, so follow the instructions on here to check out the package: http://kevinmehall.net/p/pithos/index.html

If you get messages like don762003 mentioned, it just means python isn't finding the pithos egg, probably because you put it in site-packages with a /usr/local prefix. I added the site packages directory a little differently than Deb, so if his version isn't working for you you can try this:

Open /usr/local/bin/pithos with root access in a text editor. Add these two lines somewhere before 'import pithos':

import site
site.addsitedir('/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages')