ImportError: No module named unstable

Question

I get the following error when I execute the gui.py script on my newly installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Please help as I have recently started using Ubuntu, I am not too good at debugging yet.

I get this error when I am trying to open the GUI of an open source software RevKit

sushanttrivedi@ubuntu:~/project/revkit-1.3$ ./tools/gui/gui.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./tools/gui/gui.py", line 143, in <module>
    w = MainWindow()
  File "./tools/gui/gui.py", line 73, in __init__
    self.setupTools()
  File "./tools/gui/gui.py", line 102, in setupTools
    import items.unstable
ImportError: No module named unstable

What exactly is this error? is it because there is some background package missing? Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

What it is saying is that within "items" there is no module named "unstable".

Some things to try:

Open a terminal and run the python interpreter and import items and then try help(items).

You might be able to try sudo pip install items or sudo pip install revkit_python

Although it seems like items is a specific module related to revkit.

Some files might need to be made try: ./configure; make && make install within the revkit folder.