How to install Python newt or snack in Mac OS X for byobu

Question

I've installed byobu in Mac OS X 10.6.5. It will start, (i.e. it will start a screen session) but in order to run byobu-config and probably in order to do some other things I need a module called snack which apparently is part of python newt.

pip search newt and pip search snack return no results. newt and snack aren't in MacPorts or Brew either.

I haven't found anything online in my searching with respect to installing newt on Mac OS X.

Has anyone else been able to install byobu and newt in Mac OS X?

Answer 1

Try,

sudo port install libnewt

After that, you may need to add /opt/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages to PYTHONPATH as follows,

export PYTHONPATH=/opt/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/

or

setenv PYTHONPATH /opt/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/