Inkscape

python in Windows 7: "The fantastic lxml wrapper for libxml2"

Asked by Daniel Maxwell

Using Inkscape in Windows 7, I get this bug when I try to use some of the extensions (eg. 'Color Markers to Match Stroke'):

"The fantastic lxml wrapper for libxml2 is required by inkex.py and therefore this extension. Please download and install the latest version from http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/lxml/, or install it through your package manager by a command like: sudo apt-get install python-lxml"

There is a lot of talk about this bug in the forums, all of it relating to OSX. I am not running OSX, I'm running 64-bit Windows 7, and I have not found any solutions for it.

I have verified that the lxml folder IS present, in location: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Inkscape\python\Lib\site-packages\lxml"

Python is installed separately on my machine, and is in the environment variables - which I suspected might have been the problem but deleting it from the variables and restarted the machine did not solve the problem.

Any other suggestions??

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Daniel Maxwell (cot) said : 		#1

I have found a work around, but not a satisfactory solution.

It was caused by a previous installation of Python, which had installed an environment variable called PYTHONHOME in the system variables. Deleting this variable solved the problem. This isn't at all a satisfactory solution, because whatever it was that was previously using that environment variable now can't, but at least it makes Inkscape work.

He is how to get rid of it:
- From the Start menu, type "System" and select System from the list (under 'Control Panel').
- Click on 'Advanced System Settings' from the panel on the left.
- Click the 'Environment Variables' button at the bottom.
- Under 'System Variables', scroll down until you find a variable called 'PYTHONPATH', write down what its value is, so that you can recreate it if you need it, and then delete it.
-Close and open Inkscape, and try to see if it's worked. (There was no need to restart the computer in my case).

Hope that helps other people.

This still needs a proper fix to make Inkscape work without having to do this.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#2

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