Problem when trying to install fpdb on ubuntu machine

Question

I've been trying to get fpdb working on my Ubuntu desktop, but every time I try to install it from the Gz file, my system won't let me use ./configure (saying file not found), and when I try to install it from the DEB file, I get

spencer@spencer-System-Product-Name:~$ fpdb
Python 2.7...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/fpdb", line 85, in <module>
    import DetectInstalledSites
  File "/usr/share/pyshared/fpdb/DetectInstalledSites.py", line 47, in <module>
    Config=Configuration.Config()
  File "/usr/share/pyshared/fpdb/Configuration.py", line 805, in __init__
    game = Game(node = game_node)
  File "/usr/share/pyshared/fpdb/Configuration.py", line 397, in __init__
    self.rows    = int( node.getAttribute("rows") )
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

I'm something of a novice, so do you know anything that could help me properly install fpdb?

Also, I cannot find an installation manual for fpdb anywhere for installation on Ubuntu.

Also, whenever I run the run_fpdb.py file, I get:

['matplotlib/gtk', 'File not found: pylab', 'File not found: BeautifulSoup', 'File not found: wnck']

Does anybody know if I'm lacking certain repositories or files, or if I need to adjust something to install fpdb?

Answer 1

Regarding BeautifulSoup and wnck, I managed to solve this problem by installing these two packages:

sudo apt-get install python-beautifulsoup
sudo apt-get install python-wnck

I didn't get errors for matplotlib/gtk and pylab, but I guess that's because I had already installed the Python packages listed on this wiki page before.