Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-howto import error

[Eric Blossom]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 04:32:37PM -0400, Alex young wrote:
> Background info:
> GNU Radio trunk, revision 11163
> Ubuntu 8.04, 32bit
> make version 3.81
> autoconf version 2.61
> gcc version 4.2.4
> 
> The problem I am having:
> I downloaded gr-howto-write-a-block-3.2.tar.gz from
> ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuradio/, extracted it, and ran ./configure, make, make
> check and make install. (I did all this using sudo; my source tree is
> owned by root.) There were no apparent errors, but I can include the
> output if it is desired. I attempted to run qa_howto.py and recieved the
> following error:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./qa_howto.py", line 24, in <module>
>     import howto
> ImportError: No module named howto
> 

Try running:

  make check




> Per a comment from Eric on 18 Nov, 05 to the list, I checked my
> PYTHONPATH variable:
> 
> $ echo $PYTHONPATH
> /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages
> 
> I also found a thread started by William Sherman from April 09 with
> similar issues, but I did not see its resolution.
> 
> So, the question: 
> Can anyone tell me if I've missed something about how to install "howto"
> and import it successfully? I have had no operational problems with my
> trunk install of gnuradio.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex Young