How to install caffeine on Scientific Linux 6.3

Question

caffeine
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/caffeine", line 40, in <module>
    import caffeine
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/caffeine/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
    from gi.repository import Gtk, Gio
ImportError: No module named gi.repository

This is what I get after installing caffeine.

rpm -qa | egrep -i 'caffeine|gobject'
caffeine-2.4.419-1.el6.nux.noarch
pygobject2-2.20.0-5.el6.x86_64

How can I install it? what am I missing?

https://launchpad.net/caffeine

Answer 1

Your pygobject is too old. gi.repository used to be provided by PyGI. It was merged into pygobject, but not until 2.21.4, so you either need to update pygobject or install PyGI (probably the former)