[Pytables-users] Problem with new PyTables installation on Debian - ImportError: No module named utilsExtension

[Alok M. <alo...@gm...>]

Hi,

I am excited about the potential of PyTables for a couple of big data
projects I am working on but I have run into an issue which I don't know
how to resolve.
This is my first PyTables installation and I am installing it on the latest
version of Linux Mint 64-bit based on Debian/Ubuntu.

I have tried installing PyTables in two ways, first in a virtualenv with
pip and easy_install along with manual installation of hdf5, numpy and
numexpr, and secondly as a system-wide installation using apt-get build-dep
python-tables.

With either approach, I am getting the same error when I try to 'from
tables import *' or 'import tables' from either python or ipython. The
error is "ImportError: No module named utilsExtension"  While there are
some older comments on the mailing list discussing this error (
http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pytables.user/month=20100401), they
do not appear to apply to my problem.

Can anyone suggest the simplest path to a successful installation of
PyTables on a debian-derived Linux? I am anxious to get started if I can
get this resolved quickly.

thanks,
--Alok