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FS#43038 - [avahi] avahi-discover aborts with error: "No module named dbus"

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Sönke Behrends (positive_definite) - Sunday, 07 December 2014, 20:02 GMT
Last edited by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Sunday, 07 December 2014, 22:30 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture x86_64
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Starting avahi-discover from bash immediately aborts with the message:

"Sorry, to use this tool you need to install Avahi, pygtk and python-dbus.
Error: No module named dbus"

Additional info:

Packages installed:
pacman -Q avahi pygtk python-dbus dbus
avahi 0.6.31-14
pygtk 2.24.0-5
python-dbus 1.2.0-4
dbus 1.8.12-1

I did search online but could not find this bug.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Dave Reisner (falconindy)
Sunday, 07 December 2014, 22:30 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  optdepends list exactly what's needed.
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Sunday, 07 December 2014, 20:13 GMT
The optdepends for avahi point out your error:

python2-dbus: avahi-discover
Comment by Sönke Behrends (positive_definite) - Sunday, 07 December 2014, 21:06 GMT
That solved it! Thank you for the fast reply.

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