Autokey requires python-kde4 but python-kde4 no longer available

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#1

After updating Tumbleweed autokey no longer works.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/autokey-qt", line 20, in <module>
    from autokey.qtapp import Application
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/autokey/qtapp.py", line 22, in <module>
    from PyKDE4.kdecore import KCmdLineArgs, KCmdLineOptions, KAboutData, ki18n, i18n
ImportError: No module named PyKDE4.kdecore

If I remember correctly I originally got autokey from the devel:python repo, but it is no longer there. Now it is only in the X11:common:Factory repo. I tried installing from that repo but get a message that python-kde4 is required, and that in turn is no longer available. Searching for the package on https://software.opensuse.org/package/python-kde4 shows that only the 32-bit version is available, and only from the official repo.

It seems that both these packages have moved, so is this problem just a matter of waiting for the python-kde4 package 64-bit version to turn up in the repo? If not, any advice on how to install autokey would be very much appreciated, I rely on it alot; without it I might have to try downgrading to 42.3, but that is work I would prefer to avoid.

#2

Wolfi323 still builds python-kde4 in one of his repos… But, things aren’t dropped from Tw for no good reason. The drop means in most cases that packages/source code have not been maintained for too long. What you could do, is use OBS to branch existing packages and have them built in your own repo, then break the link to the original package, so yours will persist, whenever the original package gets removed. But then again, you’d still have unmaintained software on your system.

#3

Thanks, I’ll see if I can find it in one of wolf323’s repos. If not, I suppose I might try what you suggest, but I am not that expert - I have not the least clue about maintaining a repo, let alone building packages.

At any rate python-kde4 seems not to have been dropped entirely, the 32-bit version is still in the official tw repo (which is strange given it is a 64-bit only distro now, or am I wrong about that?)

#4

Your suggestion to try wolfi323’s repos work. I found python-kde4 on http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/wolfi323:/branches:/KDE:/Frameworks5/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ and now autokey works.

Thanks again.