alacarte broken?

[Marco Beishuizen]

On Sat, 27 Jun 2009, Marco Beishuizen wrote:

>
> Today I updated my ports. Now alacarte (the menu editor) doesn't work anymore 
> (also the "about gnome" program btw). Starting it in a terminal gives the 
> following errors:
> ...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/local/bin/alacarte", line 22, in <module>
>    from Alacarte.MainWindow import MainWindow
>  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 
> 19, in <module>
>    import gtk, gmenu, gobject, gio
>  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 
> 48, in <module>
>    from gtk import _gtk
> ImportError: No module named cairo
> ...
>
> I reinstalled alacarte but this didn't help. It seems it has something to do 
> with python, gtk or cairo. But before I reinstall all of these I would like 
> to know if someone is familiair with this problem.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Marco

I saw something about python in /usr/ports/UPDATING, and I am trying to 
upgrade to python26 first. Perhaps this helps.

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