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I was trying to access Settings in Update Manager to setup automatic updates. But the Settings Dialog does not pop up. Cannot Access Software Sources from the Ubuntu Software Center>Edit>Software Sources... either. When I try to run software sources from the terminal I get the following error.

$ sudo software-properties-gtk
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk", line 26, in <module>
    gi.require_version('Gtk', '2.0')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 46, in require_version
    raise ValueError('Namespace %s not available' % namespace)
ValueError: Namespace Gtk not available

I understand that the package is looking for GTK namespace and requires Gtk version 2.0 Trying to check what version of GTK is installed, I run the following and get

$ apt-cache showpkg libgtk2.0-0 | more
Package: libgtk2.0-0
Versions: 
2.24.4-0ubuntu2 (/var/lib/apt/lists/Ubuntu%2011.04%20%5fNatty%20Narwhal%5f%20-%2
0Release%20i386%20(20110426)_dists_natty_main_binary-i386_Packages) (/var/lib/ap
t/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_natty_main_binary-i386_Packages) (/va
r/lib/dpkg/status)
 Description Language: 
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/Ubuntu%2011.04%20%5fNatty%20Narwhal%5f
%20-%20Release%20i386%20(20110426)_dists_natty_main_binary-i386_Packages
                  MD5: 3ed10be69b676a812afff2c7fdaa4017

How do I get software sources to run?

Update:
Found a related question here.I have python2.5 installed, but haven't set up a symbolic link to it, and the above log mentions python2.7

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I had the same problem and finally solved it! Just for the record, reinstalling the packages as stated above did not help. This is what I did.

According to the pygi docs, if you type

python -c 'from gi.repository import Gtk; print Gtk'

you should get

<gi.module.DynamicModule 'Gtk' from '/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Gtk-3.0.typelib'>

(Gtk-2.0 depending on which version you have installed. I have Gtk-2.0.)

This gave me the clue. The Gtk typelib was in fact there but I suspected there may be another girepository-1.0 directory in my filesystem that was taking precedence. Using the locate command I found it in /usr/local/lib along with several libgirepository-1.0* libs. This directory did not contain the Gtk typelib. So I simply removed it along with the libraries and the problem is now solved.

Marduk
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    I get ERROR:root:Could not find any typelib for Gtk Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: cannot import name Gtk – abel Jul 24 '11 at 17:02
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    That means that the Python module trying to load the Gtk module cannot find it in the current girepository-1.0 directory, which assuming you installed the packages recommended by jnv, is apparently not in /usr/lib/ as it should be. Use the locate command as I explained before. Prior to using it enter sudo updatedb. – Marduk Jul 25 '11 at 04:07
  • @Markud locate girepository-1.0 gives a list of locations http://pastie.org/2267942 – abel Jul 25 '11 at 11:47
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    Well, the Gtk typelib is there. I recommend you delete the libgirepository-1.0.* libraries in /usr/local/lib. – Marduk Jul 25 '11 at 14:22
  • It runs! What was the problem with the libgirepository-1.0.* in the /usr/local/lib folder? Thank you. – abel Aug 08 '11 at 16:35
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    Those libraries were present both in /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib. The ones in the latter location were taking precedence but the typelibs are in /usr/lib. Glad it works now. – Marduk Aug 09 '11 at 04:27
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Since software-properties is a Python application, it actually depends on package gir1.2-gtk-2.0. If you don't have this package installed, you have broken dependencies. Check it out using Synaptic.

Otherwise reinstallation of the affected packages may help:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall gir1.2-gtk-2.0 python-software-properties software-properties-gtk
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ame as the above solution except I made a soft link in the /usr/local directory pointing to /usr/lib/girepository-1.0. I also renamed the old directory.

ls -l

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K loka 14 14:08 girepository-1.0_old

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 loka 14 14:10 girepository-1.0 -> /usr/lib/girepository-1.0

It wouldn't work otherwise.

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