Quick fix for Beryl-SVN settings manager problem
Thursday, January 25, 2007
A few updates ago, users started experiencing problems with latest release of beryl-svn. Beryl will run, but there is no settings manager! If run at the command line (beryl-settings), one gets a python error, stating that a module is not found! Not to fear! This is a quick fix. First, make sure you have have Python 2.5 installed. Then, execute the following command (this is all one line):
This should pretty much fix the problem. If for some reason this doesn't work, the file may be located in a different place. This "different place" may be /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages. Copy the berylsettings.so file from there to /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages.
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/python-support/beryl-settings-bindings/python2.5/berylsettings.so /var/lib/python-support/python2.4/berylsettings.so
This should pretty much fix the problem. If for some reason this doesn't work, the file may be located in a different place. This "different place" may be /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages. Copy the berylsettings.so file from there to /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages.