Kazam Screencaster not working

[ryutenchi]

First of all the Kazam in the repo is pretty old. Also, it simply doesn't work anymore. Whenever you try to record it kicks back this error in the console:

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ERROR Kazam      - Could not find any typelib for AppIndicator3
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gobject/constants.py:24: Warning: g_boxed_type_register_static: assertion `g_type_from_name (name) == 0' failed
  import gobject._gobject
** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GstObject)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/kazam/app.py", line 385, in cb_record_clicked
    region)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/kazam/backend/gstreamer.py", line 85, in setup_sources
    self.setup_video_source()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/kazam/backend/gstreamer.py", line 102, in setup_video_source
    self.videosrc = gst.element_factory_make("ximagesrc", "video_src")
gst.ElementNotFoundError: ximagesrc


I tried downloading the latest version from https://launchpad.net/kazam (only place I coud find it), and installed and eselected python 3 to try to get it to work, but then it kicked back when trying to install with the script provided with this:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Downloads/kazam-1.3.101-0ubuntu1/setup.py", line 8, in <module>
    from DistUtilsExtra.command import *
ImportError: No module named DistUtilsExtra.command

has anyone gotten Kazam to work and if so, how?

Thanks for your help!
-Matt

[Ryuno-Ki]

Hm, I do not use Kazam, but if I have a look into the README, installation shall be done this way:

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For distribution independent installation you will have to get the latest
tarball release from Launchpad:

http://launchpad.net/kazam/stable/1.4.0/+download/kazam_1.4.0.tar.gz

Unpack it and then run setup:

   $ tar -xzf kazam_1.4.0.tar.gz
   $ cd kazam-1.4.0

Run installation as root user, or use sudo:

   # python setup.py install

How did you do it? By the way, Launchpad is the only place, where the code is hosted …

It also recommend to run Kazam with --debug option when problems occur.
I could not find any hint, that Python3 is used.
Concerning your bug with Python 2.7: There's a bug report, which recommends to check, whether the following plugins are installed:
gst-plugins-base-1.0, gst-plugins-good-1.0 and gst-plugins-1.0. gst-plugins-ximagesrc-1.0 may help, too.

[Stupot]

I see the bug you opened:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/kazam/+bug/1132321

According to his response, the package could be missing some dependencies:
http://packages.sabayon.org/show/kazam, ... -show-what

He said that it needs the ugly plugins, which isn't included in that list:

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#equo install media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly

However, the traceback seems to indicate that ximagesrc is where the problem lies, so I would try installing that package again, just for good measure.

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#equo install media-plugins/gst-plugins-ximagesrc

[ryutenchi]

@Stupot and Ryuno-ki:
Thank you both for your quick replies! Unfortunately I have all of those packages installed and have tried the setup script as both normal user and root. However, in verifying that I had those packages installed I did notice that I had all but the gst-plugins-ximagesrc 0.10 version installed along side the 1.0 version... do you think this could be the issue? that it's trying to use the .10 version for some reason? How would I change/test that?