I just discovered MenuLibre with this last time that I installed Ubuntu 13.10. Tom pointed out on that post that a new 2.0 version is available. It’s not in the Ubuntu 13.10 repositories, but it was easy enough to install (or, at least should have been) …
Here’s the easy way
First, you need to install two prerequisites.
sudo apt-get install python3-distutils-extra sudo apt-get install python3-psutil
Now download the latest version from the Project Page.
Finally, extract and install like this:
tar -xzvf menulibre-2.0.1.tar.gz cd menulibre-2.0.1 python3 setup.py install --user
Run it like this (or, from the menu):
$ ~/.local/bin/menulibre
Here’s what I went through (full story)
I downloaded the source package using Sean’s link: MenuLibre 2.0 from Launchpad.
tar -xzvf menulibre-2.0.tar.gz cd menulibre-2.0 python3 setup.py install --user
At first, I got this error message:
To build menulibre you need https://launchpad.net/python-distutils-extra
It wouldn’t install.
I tried to install the packages:
sudo apt-get install python-distutils-extra libgtksourceviewmm-3.0-dev python3-d2to1
None of those worked. What finally worked was installing this one:
sudo apt-get install python3-distutils-extra
That seemed to work, but upon launching for the first time, I got this output. The only way to stop it was with Ctrl+Z.
~$ ~/.local/bin/menulibre
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/skp/.local/lib/python3.3/site-packages/menulibre/MenulibreApplication.py", line 2247, in do_activate
self.win = MenulibreWindow(self)
File "/home/skp/.local/lib/python3.3/site-packages/menulibre/MenulibreApplication.py", line 338, in __init__
self.configure_application_treeview(builder)
File "/home/skp/.local/lib/python3.3/site-packages/menulibre/MenulibreApplication.py", line 614, in configure_application_treeview
selection.set_select_function(self.on_treeview_selection)
TypeError: set_select_function() takes exactly 3 arguments (2 given)
Jackson reported in a bug report that this was already fixed in a later version. So, I should have downloaded the latest version from the Project Page.
I tried it again with the new version:
tar -xzvf menulibre-2.0.1.tar.gz cd menulibre-2.0.1 python3 setup.py install --user
Closer … then I got this output:
$ ~/.local/bin/menulibre
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/skp/.local/bin/menulibre", line 31, in
import menulibre
File "/home/skp/.local/lib/python3.3/site-packages/menulibre/__init__.py", line 23, in
from menulibre import MenulibreApplication
File "/home/skp/.local/lib/python3.3/site-packages/menulibre/MenulibreApplication.py", line 24, in
from . import MenuEditor, MenulibreXdg, XmlMenuElementTree, util
File "/home/skp/.local/lib/python3.3/site-packages/menulibre/MenuEditor.py", line 30, in
from . import util
File "/home/skp/.local/lib/python3.3/site-packages/menulibre/util.py", line 22, in
import psutil
ImportError: No module named 'psutil'
Finally, I fixed that by installing this package:
sudo apt-get install python3-psutil
After that, it worked wonders. I used it to insert a launcher for itself.
Note, that I installed it in my user directory. If I wanted to install it for all users, I could have done this.
sudo python3 setup.py install
By installing it in my user directory, I could have both versions.
Resources
Sean Michael Davis: MenuLibre 2.0 Released, Available in Ubuntu 14.04
Sean Michael Davis: MENULIBRE
SolydXK Forum: HOW TO: Install MenuLibre (menu editor) for XFCE
Ask Fedora: Kazam Screencast: ImportError: No module named ‘DistUtilsExtra’
Debian Bug Report: menulibre: Menulibre doesn’t start
MenuLibre Project Page