[Blink] Blink doesn't work

[Saúl Ibarra Corretgé]

Hi Mike!

> On 24 Jan 2016, at 00:48, Mike Nagie <promike1987 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I'd like to try this program, and even though it was hard to satisfy all
> the dependencies under Archlinux, it doesn't work.
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/bin/blink", line 30, in <module>
>    from blink import Blink
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blink/__init__.py", line 47, in
> <module>
>    from blink.chatwindow import ChatWindow
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blink/chatwindow.py", line 40,
> in <module>
>    from blink.contacts import URIUtils
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blink/contacts.py", line 47, in
> <module>
>    from blink.sessions import SessionManager, StreamDescription
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blink/sessions.py", line 29, in
> <module>
>    from application.python.weakref import weakobjectmap,
> defaultweakobjectmap
> ImportError: cannot import name defaultweakobjectmap
> 

How did you install Blink? From source? If you are running latest Blink source you’ll need python-application >= 2.0, that should do.

> 
> [I also tried it on (x)Ubuntu:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/local/bin/blink", line 30, in <module>
>    from blink import Blink
>  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/blink/__init__.py", line
> 13, in <module>
>    import sip
> ImportError: No module named sip]
> 

You need to have python-sip installed, which should be a dependency of python-qt4. Did you use our repositories to install Blink?

> 
> But Archlinux's error messages are the important here, because that's
> what I use.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Mike
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Saúl Ibarra Corretgé
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