Introspection error after install

Using Aravis
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Hi, new to linux so bear with me!!

I’ve completed a clean install of Aravis-0.6.4 and been able to use the viewer to open the stream from my Teledyne Genie Nano (I’m unable to control the exposure though so have pretty much a full white image, that’s a help request for another time though…)

I then tried to install python-aravis though I discovered I did not build with introspection. I recompiled a new tarballs download with --enable-introspection=yes but this has not allowed python-aravis to work. I get the error:

    gus@gus-VirtualBox:~/GigE-V/python-aravis-master$ python3 setup.py
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "setup.py", line 9, in <module>
    import make_deb
      File "/home/gus/GigE-V/python-aravis-master/make_deb.py", line 9, in <module>
    import aravis
      File "/home/gus/GigE-V/python-aravis-master/aravis.py", line 9, in <module>
    from gi.repository import Aravis
      File "/home/gus/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gi/importer.py", line 133, in load_module
    'introspection typelib not found' % namespace)
    ImportError: cannot import name Aravis, introspection typelib not found

My suspicion is that the second compilation has not “overwritten” the first? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Gus

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Having investigated further, I’ve found the solution buried away in this github issue thread. It involved creating a link between the aravis.typelib destination from compilation and the /usr/lib/girepository-1.0/ folder.