[ckan-dev] Fixing broken extension installs?

Tue Feb 9 08:52:58 UTC 2016

In my attempts to install CKAN with a number of extensions, I have now come across this error a few times.  It seems (although not sure how to prove this), that if a mistake is made with a pip install, then some aspect of CKAN gets broken - specifically you can no longer perform any pip installs or uninstalls, or run any paster command.  

Each time the error message is exactly the same:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 703, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 683, in main
    paths_in_sys = addsitepackages(paths_in_sys)
  File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 282, in addsitepackages
    addsitedir(sitedir, known_paths)
  File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 204, in addsitedir
    addpackage(sitedir, name, known_paths)
  File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 173, in addpackage
    exec(line)
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
KeyError: 'ckanext'

I cannot see how to fix this and so have to wipe CKAN and run the installation process all over.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks
Derek

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