I installed a new module and it appears as if one of its dependencies was not already installed. The module is called Xlib.display. Here is the error message I received:
Please try.
This shall install Xlib
sudo apt-get install python-xlib
Then you can check
>>from Xlib.display import Display
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I honestly cant explain why this works... but here is the command that got it working for me.
sudo apt-get install python3-xlib
Should not work because xlib apparently does not work with python 3.x, but everything installed alright, so I'm not complaining!
I was looking for the same answer, however after some more digging it seems that XCB (X protocol C-language Binding) will obsolete Xlib in general. From the XCB website:
The X protocol C-language Binding (XCB) is a replacement for Xlib featuring a small footprint, latency hiding, direct access to the protocol, improved threading support, and extensibility.
Fortunately there are python bindings available as python-xpyb in apt or xpyb on PyPi. I've not gotten that far in my project so I haven't tested if this works with Python3, but this is probably the way to go and the proper place to file any Python3 support bugs if necessary.
On Debian systems install python-xlib.
On other systems there's a high probability that the package carries the same name.
I was trying to use screenshot functionalities of pyautogui
package. I was getting this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test_screenshot.py", line 1, in <module>
import pyautogui
File ".../miniconda3/envs/myenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyautogui/__init__.py", line 152, in <module>
from . import _pyautogui_x11 as platformModule
File ".../miniconda3/envs/myenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyautogui/_pyautogui_x11.py", line 7, in <module>
from Xlib.display import Display
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Xlib'
Python code (test_screenshot.py
):
import pyautogui
img = pyautogui.screenshot('test.png')
Environment:
requirements.txt:
certifi==2019.3.9
Pillow==5.4.1
PyAutoGUI==0.9.42
PyGetWindow==0.0.4
PyMsgBox==1.0.6
PyRect==0.1.4
PyScreeze==0.1.20
PyTweening==1.0.3
I installed python-xlib
package in the conda environment using:
pip install python-xlib
Now test_screenshot.py
is running without any error.
Updated requirements.txt
:
certifi==2019.3.9
Pillow==5.4.1
PyAutoGUI==0.9.42
PyGetWindow==0.0.4
PyMsgBox==1.0.6
PyRect==0.1.4
PyScreeze==0.1.20
python-xlib==0.25
PyTweening==1.0.3
six==1.12.0
I was having the same problem, but the solutions above didn't work for me. Since I had installed python through the anaconda package, when I used:
sudo apt-get install python-xlib
Xlib was still undetectable by python2. The solution in my case was to use:
anaconda search -t conda python-xlib
Then find the package from the anaconda api, mine was erik/python-xlib. Install it using:
conda install --channel https://conda.anaconda.org/erik python-xlib
Then it worked.