Guy, I have to contradict your observation. I just tried in karmic chroot with the package, adding karmic-proposed to sources.list I upgraded via apt-get
Get:2 http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-proposed/main libboost- python1.38.0 1.38.0-6ubuntu6.1 [246kB] and then r...@flux:/etc/apt# python Python 2.6.4rc2 (r264rc2:75497, Oct 20 2009, 02:54:09) [GCC 4.4.1] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from visual import * >>> works flawlessly. Are you sure you really had the package installed? (sorry for such a stupid question, but I see no other possible cause) -- [SRU, 9.10] libboost-python1.38 issues with __doc__ property in Python >= 2.6.3 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/457688 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs