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

[David De La Harpe Golden]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> Would somebody help me, please.

What debian version are you running? Probably lenny (current stable), as 
etch (current oldstable) is about to EOL.

Firstly, bzr 2.0.2 is currently packaged in  debian lenny-backports.
http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/bzr
Dunno if 2.0.2->2.0.3 matters much.  But using a nicely packaged 
backport is likely to be less painful.

Note 2.0.3 is packaged in debian unstable.

As regards your error:

> No module named bz2

Hmm. Module bz2 is bundled with python since python 2.3
Can you type "python" to get a python repl, then type "import bz2" to 
try to import it?  If that fails, there's something broken
with your python - though presumably you're using the debian
packaging of it?