Quodlibet mpris "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dbus'"

Father2303 · June 12, 2022, 8:41am

I am running unstable with Plasma. I want to use the mpris plugin for quodlibet but it shows the following error:

<module> import dbus ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dbus'

Trying to solve it, i installed python39Packages.dbus-python python39Packages.pydbus libgmpris eggdbus to no avail.

What can i do to solve this issue?

jtojnar · June 12, 2022, 6:28pm

Installing Python packages globally is meaningless, see FAQ - NixOS Wiki. Instead, you need to add the package as a dependency to the package itself.

Fortunately, quodlibet already supports this so you can just use (quodlibet.override { withDbusPython = true; }) or even quodlibet-full:

github.com

NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/968964fa8a5a2d36b3c28230555fd382e9ba01e8/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix#L29313-L29324

    
      
          quodlibet-full = quodlibet.override {
            inherit gtksourceview webkitgtk;
            withDbusPython = true;
            withPyInotify = true;
            withMusicBrainzNgs = true;
            withPahoMqtt = true;
            keybinder3 = keybinder3;
            libmodplug = libmodplug;
            kakasi = kakasi;
            libappindicator-gtk3 = libappindicator-gtk3;
            tag = "-full";
          };

Father2303 · June 13, 2022, 3:18pm

That worked - thank you very much!

And thank you for the explanation. I’m brand new at NixOS and wasn’t aware of that.