<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Vincent <<a href="mailto:bullet@ballmail.co.za">bullet@ballmail.co.za</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 </blockquote><div> Hi Vincent. You can manually download packages from <a href="http://www.debian.org">www.debian.org</a>, 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. <a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz/">http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz/</a> 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! <div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: courier new,monospace;">wesley@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 </div> </div></div>