[Gimp-developer] Pygtk errors at startup

[M Gagnon]

Hi,
>
> I just built GIMP on Mac OS X 10.4.11 from the latest svn sources but when I
> launch it I get these errors at startup (however, GIMP seems to run
> regardless):
>
> cube15:/Volumes/datacube/svn/gimp/trunk ep$ This is a development version of
> GIMP.  Debug messages may appear here.
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/opt/gimp/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/py-slice.py", line 31, in ?
>     from gimpfu import *
>   File "/opt/gimp/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpfu.py", line 74, in ?
>     import gimp
> ImportError: could not import pygtk
>
> (gimp-2.5:13288): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: gimp-2.5: gimp_wire_read(): error
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/opt/gimp/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/palette-to-gradient.py", line 17, in
> ?
>     from gimpfu import *
>   File "/opt/gimp/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpfu.py", line 74, in ?
>     import gimp
> ImportError: could not import pygtk
>
> (gimp-2.5:13288): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: gimp-2.5: gimp_wire_read(): error
>
> Identical errors also for files:
> "/opt/gimp/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/palette-sort.py", line 17
> "/opt/gimp/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/palette-offset.py", line 17
> "/opt/gimp/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/happy-valley-relief.py", line 20
> "/opt/gimp/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gimpcons.py", line 20
> "/opt/gimp/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/foggify.py", line 20
> "/opt/gimp/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/colorxhtml.py", line 25
>
> To build GIMP I used the instructions at
> http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/HowToCompileGimp/MacOSX
>
> with:
>
> $ ./autogen.sh  --without-mng --without-alsa --disable-alsatest --without-x
> --with-libtiff LDFLAGS="-L/opt/gtk/lib -L/opt/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib"
> CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/gtk/include -I/opt/local/include -I/usr/local/include"
> --prefix=/opt/gimp
>
> Any idea on how to fix those errors?
>
> Thx
>
> Ettore
>   

Are you exporting the PYTHONPATH envrionment variable prior to launching 
GIMP, just like it is written in the above article? On my computer this 
is how I could fix these errors