"No module named trac.admin.console" error

[barunio]

After installing Trac 0.11 on my Ubuntu box, I get an error when trying to initialize a new trac environment.

Installation done with the following commands:

svn co http://svn.edgewall.com/repos/trac/trunk /usr/src/trac
/usr/src/trac/setup.py install

which yields the following output:

running install
running bdist_egg
running egg_info
creating Trac.egg-info
writing requirements to Trac.egg-info/requires.txt
writing Trac.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to Trac.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing dependency_links to Trac.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing entry points to Trac.egg-info/entry_points.txt
writing manifest file 'Trac.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
warning: manifest_maker: standard file 'setup.py' not found
reading manifest file 'Trac.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
writing manifest file 'Trac.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
installing library code to build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg
running install_lib
warning: install_lib: 'build/lib' does not exist -- no Python modules to install
creating build
creating build/bdist.linux-x86_64
creating build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg
creating build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying Trac.egg-info/PKG-INFO -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying Trac.egg-info/SOURCES.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying Trac.egg-info/dependency_links.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying Trac.egg-info/entry_points.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying Trac.egg-info/not-zip-safe -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying Trac.egg-info/requires.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying Trac.egg-info/top_level.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
creating dist
creating 'dist/Trac-0.11-py2.4.egg' and adding 'build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg' to it
removing 'build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg' (and everything under it)
Processing Trac-0.11-py2.4.egg
creating /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11-py2.4.egg
Extracting Trac-0.11-py2.4.egg to /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages
Adding Trac 0.11 to easy-install.pth file
Installing trac-admin script to /usr/bin
Installing tracd script to /usr/bin

Installed /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11-py2.4.egg
Processing dependencies for Trac==0.11

Seems like everything is working okay. Except that when I try to use trac-admin:

trac-admin /home/trac/proj initenv

it doesn't work, and I get the following errors:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/trac-admin", line 7, in ?
    sys.exit(
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c5-py2.4.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 236, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c5-py2.4.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2097, in load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c5-py2.4.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 1830, in load
    entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__'])
ImportError: No module named trac.admin.console

Somehow it's not able to find the trac.admin.console module … why?

[Emmanuel Blot]

This seems to be an installation issue:

running install_lib
warning: install_lib: 'build/lib' does not exist -- no Python modules to install

Which release of setuptools is installed on your machine?

[barunio]

I believe I am using version 0.6c5-py2.4.egg

Inside of /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages I have three related directories: (1) setuptools-0.6a9-py2.4.egg (2) setuptools-0.6c5-py2.4.egg There is also a file in te site-packages directory named

setuptools.pth

which containes a single line of data: ./setuptools-0.6c5-py2.4.egg

[barunio]

i've figured out the problem. once i knew it was an installation issue, i did a search and realized that setup.py *must* be run from the directory that it is located in. so "/usr/src/trac/setup.py install" won't work. instead i had to navigate to the /usr/src/trac directory and run "./setup.py install" that worked ok.

[Emmanuel Blot]

Replying to barunio:

i've figured out the problem. once i knew it was an installation issue, i did a search and realized that setup.py *must* be run from the directory that it is located in. so "/usr/src/trac/setup.py install" won't work. instead i had to navigate to the /usr/src/trac directory and run "./setup.py install" that worked ok.

I got caught with the same issue a while ago, I just forgot it. Sorry…

Could you add this important piece of info to the installation directives in Trac documentation?

[Emmanuel Blot]

(fixed status is reserved for actions that have required some modifications of the source code)