How solve ImportError: No module named 'dbus'?

Question

I have installed anaconda4 on my ubuntu and I have these modules on my Python:

dbus-python (1.2.4)

gi (1.2)

pydbus (0.2)

QtAwesome (0.3.2)
qtconsole (4.2.0)
QtPy (1.0)

sip (4.18)

I tried installing dbus-python (1.2.4) and pydbus (0.2), however, neither of them works!

After testing a simple program in python 3.5.1, an error appeared:

import dbus
system_bus = dbus.SystemBus()

ImportError: No module named 'dbus'

When I use pydbus in Python 2.7.11 and 3.5.1:

from pydbus import SystemBus

bus = SystemBus()
systemd = bus.get(".systemd1")

for unit in systemd.ListUnits():
    print(unit)

I get this error:

ImportError: No module named repository

The only thing that works is this example with PyQT4 which I don't have any tutorial for.

What is the problem? Is it my installation or something else?

Answer 1

I'm not sure how you installed the modules but this error most likely occurs because the module is not installed or not installed correctly. I would recommend the following for installing a module.

pip install dbus

or since you have anaconda this will also work

conda install dbus

If you are able to access and download the source code for instance on GitHub you can try the following two methods. Navigate to the source code directory then run the following commands in the terminal:

pip install setup.py

or

python setup.py build
python setup.py install

For more on installing packages from source distributions see this page.

Answer 2

pydbus requires python-gi (or python3-gi in the case of Python 3). And pydbus 0.2 is really outdated, 0.5.1 is the current version.

Answer 3

I don't know about installing dbus in anaconda but you can install it using apt-get in ubuntu .

sudo apt-get install python-dbus

I tried with pip earlier but that didn't work for me.

Answer 4

I had the same problem when running an application called zeitgeist-explorer, but solved it by installing python2-dbus because the system was using version 3.5 and the application needed the 2 something version. check this post if you are getting an error like this one fix import error no module named dbus

Answer 5

I encountered same problem while installing notify2 in python3 I was on MacOS 10.12 resolved using

brew install dbus

Answer 6

Just do

sudo apt-get install python-dbus

on debian based os(ubuntu in your case) or

brew install dbus

on MacOSX

Answer 7

Try this for Python 3.6 32 bit version

pip install dbus-python

Answer 8

Try re-installing dbus-python. Also try on another virtual environment.