Unable to import on ubuntu 24.04

[timeyyy]

I have the ubuntu deps installed with apt.

>>> import xcffib
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/tim/programming/repo/system_hotkey/myenv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/xcffib
/__init__.py", line 35, in <module>
    lib = ffi.dlopen(soname)
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/tim/programming/repo/system_hotkey/myenv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/cffi/a
pi.py", line 150, in dlopen
    lib, function_cache = _make_ffi_library(self, name, flags)
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/tim/programming/repo/system_hotkey/myenv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/cffi/a
pi.py", line 834, in _make_ffi_library
    backendlib = _load_backend_lib(backend, libname, flags)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/tim/programming/repo/system_hotkey/myenv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/cffi/a
pi.py", line 829, in _load_backend_lib
    raise OSError(msg)
OSError: cannot load library 'libxcb.so.1': libxcb.so.1: cannot open shared object file: N
o such file or directory.  Additionally, ctypes.util.find_library() did not manage to loca
te a library called 'libxcb.so.1'

[tych0]

Do you have the .so in question?

[timeyyy]

I'm not really sure what that really means. I've done apt install libxcb1 and the -dev package. Other than that i'm guessing that i don't have the .so, how do i get it? 🙈

[tych0]

It should be in the libxcb1 package (you can verify it's present with ldconfig -v); otherwise it's probably the venv interfering with the search path? I don't really know how all that works, but you could try with --break-system-packages and see if that helps.

[timeyyy]

it's in there (ldconfig -v i mean),

I already tried the --break-system-packages, i just thought i'd check in here if it was something obvious. My system is probably broken...

[tych0]

If it's not imported via the globally installed version then something else is wrong with the system. The error you posted here is from a venv, though, which can interfere with native libraries sometimes.