installing plyer on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

[David A]

I have downloaded plyer from GitHub, but need some help installing it on Ubuntu. I have Kivy installed, but when I try to import the plyer module into my 'py' file I get 'ImportError: No module named plyer'.

How do I install plyer?

[Michael Bonfils]

Append parent directory of plyer to sys.path, it should work

2014-05-22 9:58 GMT+02:00 David A <daveswa...@gmail.com>:

I have downloaded plyer from GitHub, but need some help installing it on Ubuntu. I have Kivy installed, but when I try to import the plyer module into my 'py' file I get 'ImportError: No module named plyer'.

How do I install plyer?

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[David A]

Thank you for that. I am new to linux, and have no experience of appending to sys.path. I would be grateful if you give an example of adding the plyer directory. My plyer directory is in 'home'.

Many thanks.

[Ben Rousch]

The easiest way to install Plyer system-wide is to run:
sudo pip install git+https://github.com/kivy/plyer.git@master

[David A]

Thank you for that Ben, works perfectly.

It's a small world, I have just finished working through your 'Kivy - Creating Desktop and Mobile Apps with Python' on YouTube 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zSNzUAfohA', which is why I required Plyer. Very informative.

I only discovered kivy about 4 days ago, so exiting stuff.

Regards

David

[Ben Rousch]

I'm glad the talk helped you! Plyer had just been invented before that talk, and there have also been a lot of improvements in buildozer since then. I'm hoping to give a talk about these mobile stack improvements at this year's PyOhio.

 Ben Rousch
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