Cannot start update-manager. 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback

[kstrike155]

Hello everyone,

Let me start by saying that I'm an Ubuntu/Linux n00b, so any help you might give me might need to be a little more detailed ;) Although I am a software engineer, I'm coming from a Windows world.

Now, onto the problem. This morning when I tried to launch the Update Manager from System->Administration, it wouldn't launch. So I tried launching from a Terminal window using "sudo update-manager". Here is my output:

'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 25, in <module>
import pygtk
ImportError: No module named pygtk

I went to Synaptic and looked at my Python packages, which are installed correctly. I did a little searching and it seems that if I were to install python-gobject that this would fix the problem. I already had it installed, but I reinstalled it. No effect.

So now I'm here, asking for help, because I don't know what I'm dong. :)

I'm running Ubuntu 8.04, Kernal 2.6.24-19-generic, x86_64.

Thanks for your support!
Brian

[Partyboi2]

Have you tried to reinstall python-gtk2 package?

[kstrike155]

Yes, I've tried that. It still has the same error.

Thanks,
Brian