Cannot Import Name '_gi'

I'm trying to add a repository to ppa with the add-apt-repository commands but the _gi module from Python is not found. I did this command : sudo add-apt-repository ppa:s-mankowski

Solution 1:

Thanks to a comment by Wilhelm, I found that the solution is:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/_gi.cpython-{36m,37m}-x86_64-linux-gnu.so

This worked for me with Python 3.7 on Ubuntu.

Solution 2:

Ubuntu does not like to switch its default interpreter away from python 3.7.

So switch it back to 3.6 by using

sudo update-alternatives --config python3

After that try to install the gi package:

sudo apt install python3-gi

Solution 3:

These 2 steps may help you

$ cd /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi$ sudo ln -s _gi.cpython-{36m,37m}-x86_64-linux-gnu.so

Solution 4:

This is an old issue, but if someone needs a quick solution , that doesn't imply changing the default Python versions anywhere, just:

sudo python3.6 /usr/bin/apt-add-repository ppa:mosquitto-dev/mosquitto-ppa

Solution 5:

Follow the below steps to solve the issue.

(1) ls -al /usr/bin | grep python

(2) sudo gedit /usr/bin/add-apt-repository

Then change the !/usr/bin/python3 to

!/usr/bin/python3.6