Error installing Time Drive 0.3

Asked by phil smart

hi all
I am trying to install "Time Drive 0.3" on Ubuntu 9.10 amd64
I have followed the set of instructions on this link
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Adaptive-Technologies/Time-Drive-51090.shtml

it seems to install ok e.g no error from this command "python setup.py install"
but on trying to run it i get the error listed below
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I type time-drive as Root at terminal

/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:127: RuntimeWarning: PyOS_InputHook is not available for interactive use of PyGTK
  set_interactive(1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/time-drive", line 29, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/local/bin/time-drive", line 24, in main
    window = MainWindow()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/timedrive/app.py", line 35, in __init__
    gui_utils.loadUi(self, "uiMainWindow.ui")
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/timedrive/utils/gui_utils.py", line 43, in loadUi
    uic.loadUi(utils.find_file(uiFile), self)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/PyQt4/uic/__init__.py", line 175, in loadUi
    return DynamicUILoader().loadUi(uifile, baseinstance)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/PyQt4/uic/Loader/loader.py", line 21, in loadUi
    return self.parse(filename)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/PyQt4/uic/uiparser.py", line 768, in parse
    document = parse(filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 862, in parse
    tree.parse(source, parser)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 579, in parse
    source = open(source, "rb")
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found

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root@phil-desktop:/home/phil/Downloads/time-drive-0.3.0#

If anyone can help that would be great or if anyone knows a link to a DEB package for 9.10 amd64
thanks
phil smart

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#1

Why mess around with all that. Use this PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~time-drive-devel/+archive/stable

Its compiled for you.......

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phil smart (phil-jjct) said :
#2

Thanks for that I got duplicity 0.6 as well and it works great and thanks a lot
phil

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#3

In Ubuntu ALWAYS search for a PPA first so you can easily add and remove programs.