Re: 'bzr init-repo .' crashes for lack of module bz2. Help, please!

[Karl Fogel]

Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:
> I've just installed bazaar-2.0.3 on my Debian G/L box; I did this by
> downloading the source tarball, unpacking it and running 'python
> setup.py install' as root.  Before doing this, I had downloaded and
> unpacked http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm as hinted in the file
> INSTALL.
>
> On doing 'bzr init-repo .' bzr crashes with:
>
>   bzr: ERROR: exceptions.ImportError: failed to load 
> bzrlib.repofmt.groupcompress_repo.RepositoryFormat2a: No module named bz2
>
> , followed by a backtrace.
>
> It seems my installation of bzr was somehow incomplete, despite
> following the instructions in bzr's INSTALL.
>
> Would somebody help me, please.

Urgk.  I'm not familiar with that one, sorry.  I suggest asking on

  bazaar {_AT_} lists.ubuntu.com

(assuming the usual technique of doing an Internet search for the error
hasn't produced anything useful).

-K