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I just upgraded from Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 to 16.10, then I cannot run software-properties-gtk.

Output of that command is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk", line 37, in <module>
    from softwareproperties.gtk.SoftwarePropertiesGtk import SoftwarePropertiesGtk
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/gtk/SoftwarePropertiesGtk.py", line 34, in <module>
    from aptdaemon import client
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptdaemon/client.py", line 43, in <module>
    import defer
ImportError: No module named 'defer'

This means that all other programs relying on aptd are throwing errors.

I have tried reinstalling the package python-defer which proceeded without any errors but that did not correct this problem.

Any suggestions what went wrong? Thanks!

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    Check if you installed defer for different python versions. If i remember correctly, you can either use pip2 install or pip3 install.
    – thuyein
    Oct 17, 2016 at 12:16
  • Works perfect! Thank you. I did sudo pip install defer. You may wish to post this as an answer. I have one question though. Why wouldn't the installed python-defer package work, while pip install works?
    – Majal
    Oct 17, 2016 at 12:20
  • Looks like software-properties-gtk is looking inside dist-packages for Python 3, so you probably need to do sudo apt install python3-defer.
    – edwinksl
    Oct 17, 2016 at 12:35
  • @Majal I think when you install python-defer it actually installs into python2 site-packages. But usually pip is mapped to the highest python version. So pip install defer installed it for python3. And apparently that /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk uses python3.
    – thuyein
    Oct 17, 2016 at 12:46

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Check if you installed defer for different python versions. If i remember correctly, you can either use pip2 install defer or pip3 install defer

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  • I've actually quite noticed that similar things had been occurring since the move from python2.x to python3.x... Thanks!
    – Majal
    Oct 17, 2016 at 13:10
  • Yeah I also learn python. And I have both versions installed, and a bunch of virtualenvs. The safest way to install the package in correct version is to specify the version name in pip. pip2 or pip3. And some packages in ubuntu's repository have similar naming schemes, python2- or python- or python3- prefixes.
    – thuyein
    Oct 17, 2016 at 13:17

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