how to use/install gps python library
gps, python, python-2.7
Solution
I tried it on an Ubuntu machine and it worked just fine:
$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2012, 21:51:14)
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from gps import gps
>>>
First, make sure the file following files are present (save a directory being different due to be different):
/usr/lib/pyshared/python2.7/gps/packet.so
/usr/lib/pyshared/python2.7/gps/clienthelpers.so
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gps-3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gps/misc.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gps/client.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gps/fake.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gps/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gps/gps.py
This can be done by running:
dpkg -L python-gps
Also make sure there's no `gps.py` laying around in the directory you're running python from as that might screw the importer up.
Problem
``` root@raspberrypi:~# python Python 2.7.3 (default, Jan 13 2013, 11:20:46) [GCC 4.6.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from gps import gps Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: cannot import name gps >>> exit () ``` it doesn't seem to work. Installed debian packages: gpsd, gpsd-clients, python-gps, libgps20, libgps-dev