PyInstaller “ImportError: No module named Pyinstaller”

Question

This is the code that gets produced when I run python configure.py.

dan@Q430-Q530:~/pyinstaller-2.0/PyInstaller$ python configure.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "configure.py", line 28, in <module>
    from PyInstaller import HOMEPATH, PLATFORM
ImportError: No module named PyInstaller

So, currently, I can't even get PyInstaller running because of a missing module called... PyInstaller. This is PyInstaller 2.0, and you can find some screens of the insides of the /pyinstaller-2.0 and the /pyinstaller-2.0/PyInstaller directories here and here , respectively.

Does anyone here know what's going on? I tried copying the pyinstaller.py file in the /pyinstaller-2.0 directory into the /pyinstaller-2.0/PyInstaller directory, but I had no luck there.

This will probably turn out to be some ridiculously easy fix, but... It's got me stumped. If there's any more information needed, just ask and I shall try to provide.

Answer 1

With PyInstaller 2.0, you do not need to run configure or pyinstaller files. (Read PyInstaller 2.0 Document which comes with the installation files.)

To build your project; in the /your/path/to/pyinstaller/ directory, just run:

"python pyinstaller.py [opts] yourprogram.py"

Answer 2

I don't think the configure.py , makespec.py and build.py files are supposed to be run directly in PyInstaller 2.0.

In the download there's a pyinstaller.py file in the top level - run that.

Answer 3

It looks like the configure.py is expecting . to be on your PYTHONPATH . You should be able to run python in /pyinstaller-2.0 and import PyInstaller . This should fail as it does in the script. You can add . to your environment variable in your ~/.bashrc (make sure to source it or start a new terminal session to get the change). This would be something like:

export PYTHONPATH=.:$PYTHONPATH

Or, you can add to the top of the configure script:

import sys
sys.path.append('.')

Either way you should be able to run the script in /pyinstaller-2.0 and import the PyInstaller module.