Re: [rdiff-backup-users] installation on Suse 9.2

[Dave Howorth]

Replying to myself again :(

I should prefix this by saying that I don't know Python.

I wrote:
> When I run rdiff-backup, it says:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup", line 20, in ?
>     import rdiff_backup.Main
> ImportError: No module named rdiff_backup.Main
> 
> So I guess there's something else wrong but I haven't investigated that yet.

I've discovered that there is a file called
/usr/local/lib64/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py
So in my shell, I've typed

  export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib64/python2.3/site-packages/

and now rdiff-backup runs. But clearly that's a temporary workaround.
What's the permanent fix?

Is this an oversight in Suse's Python installation (that it doesn't
define PYTHONPATH). Is that a standard Python path? Or is it a problem
in the rdiff-backup install script? Did it put the modules in the right
place? Should it have set PYTHONPATH, or done some other Python magic?
Or something else?

Thanks, Dave