Clearsilver not installed - Trac doesn't work on Hardy

3 July 2009

The error that Trac displays is "Clearsilver not installed" and yet clearsilver is clearly installed, but has a problem with python 2.5 The error sadly has been in Hardy's distribution for nearly 2 years, but newer Ubuntus should be fine. To quickly fix it on your machine, simply get this .deb directly: curl -O http://mathiasson.nu/debian/pool/main/c/clearsilver/python-clearsilver_0.10.4-1.0pm0_amd64.deb and install it thusly: sudo dpkg -i python-clearsilver_0.10.4-1.0pm0_amd64.deb On another note, Trac claims to have migrated to Genshi and requests it to be installed, but seems to still use Clearsilver (that which Genshi replaces). hot geek tip for the day, check out http://www.tasktop.com/mylyn/ for integrated (remote) Trac within (local) Eclipse with some singularity-science-hippy frosting about focusing your mind. it might work, you never know.


  1. 1 Stewart Matheson says...

    Thanks so much. Fixed it right away!

    Posted at 2:42 p.m. on July 17, 2009
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