Unable to Install from Source

[francisayayen]

Hello,
I am running Ubuntu 20.04 and I got python 3.8.3
I've already got Terminator 2.0.1 installed via package manager.
I wanted to installed/upgrade to v2.1.0 which I understand is only possible to do so via source.

• I've downloaded to code (zip) extracted it.

• I made sure I had the dependency installed by running
  sudo apt install python3-gi python3-gi-cairo python3-psutil python3-configobj gir1.2-keybinder-3.0 gir1.2-vte-2.91 gettext intltool dbus-x11
  for which I got the following output
  Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done gettext is already the newest version (0.19.8.1-10build1). python3-configobj is already the newest version (5.0.6-4). python3-gi is already the newest version (3.36.0-1). python3-gi-cairo is already the newest version (3.36.0-1). python3-psutil is already the newest version (5.5.1-1ubuntu4). gir1.2-keybinder-3.0 is already the newest version (0.3.2-1ubuntu1). intltool is already the newest version (0.51.0-5ubuntu1). dbus-x11 is already the newest version (1.12.16-2ubuntu2.1). gir1.2-vte-2.91 is already the newest version (0.60.3-0ubuntu1~20.04). 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.

• But when I run the following
  python3 terminator --help I get: You need to install the python bindings for gobject, gtk and pango to run Terminator.

Am I suppose to run python3 setup.py build and python3 setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed --record=install-files.txt first??

Thanks

[mattrose]

Hmm, if you already have terminator 2.0.1 installed, the dependencies are exactly the same and it should run fine. Without knowing more about the system it's hard to say why it's not working.

[francisayayen]

Hi Matt, thanks for the feedback, any suggest on how I go about troubleshooting this?

[francisayayen]

I will close this. I realized that python3 command was pointing at the the Anaconda version of python instead of the default. So by doing /bin/python3 I was able to build and install the package.