[ubuntu-za] RESTORE AFTER 8.04 CRASH?

[Wesley Werner]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Vincent <bullet at ballmail.co.za> wrote:

> Hello Folks,
> I'm hoping that someone can enlighten me as to how to go about getting
> my vodafone lite 3G modem connected again after a system crash &
> restore. The problem being, that while all the necessary files and
> dependencies have been restored using sbackup, it would appear that they
> have to be re-installed.
> Synaptic shows that everything is up to date, all the latest updates are
> here, but am getting the following error message when trying to connect
> vmc via a terminal..
> "From pytz import timezone
> import error no module named pytz
> line 3 twistd: command not found"
> This tells this "point & click" mind that vmc cannot read the python
> files needed and yet they are on the system. It would appear that all
> the files restored need to be re-installed by synaptic. I thought having
> a regular backup would obviate this and the system would be restored as
> it was before the crash?
> My problem and the reason I'm writing, is that I only have the 3G modem
> and not a land line, so cannot get onto Ubuntu's site in order to
> download the packages needed. I do have a duel boot system though with
> xp, but don't know how to, or even if I can, download all the necessary
> packages via windows?
> Any help or advice would really be appreciated.
> Vincent
>
>
Hi Vincent.

You can manually download packages from www.debian.org, on the left is a
"Debian Packages" Link. Scroll down and use the search function. But pytz is
not in their catalog. Hmmmm. Google found a project page for it, you can
download the tarball there with install instructions.
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz/

This test on my side proves that pytz dos not come with python by default,
so go ahead and download it. Hope this is all you need!

wesley at matrix:~$ python
Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Dec  7 2009, 18:45:15)
[GCC 4.4.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pytz
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named pytz
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