What would cause the "gi" module to be missing from python?
- by Catalin Dumitru
After some not so clever editing of the default Python version in Ubuntu, from 2.7 to 3.2, I ended up breaking my entire system. After my computer imploded and everything stopped working, I tried to revert back my changes (by linking /usr/bin/python2.7 to /usr/bin/python and changing the default version in /usr/share/python/debian_defaults back to 2.7) but some things are still broken.
For example when I type "import gi" in the python interpreter I get the fallowing message :
>>> import gi
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named gi
>>>
error which appears with some programs too (eg: gnome tweak tool). I have tried re-installing python both from the software center and from sources, but the same error persists.
Python -- version now returns :
Python 2.7.2
and also some software packages which depend on python 2.7 are now working (for example the software center), but some things are still broken. Is there anything I can do to completely re-install python 2.7 as the default version?
