svgwrite Module dependency added without any notifications

[jayrambhia]

I updated my develop branch and was troubled with the following error.

ERROR: 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/simplecv", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('SimpleCV==1.3', 'console_scripts', 'simplecv')()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 337, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2279, in load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1989, in load
    entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__'])
  File "/home/jay/SimpleCV/SimpleCV/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from SimpleCV.Camera import *
  File "/home/jay/SimpleCV/SimpleCV/Camera.py", line 5, in <module>
    from SimpleCV.ImageClass import Image, ImageSet, ColorSpace
  File "/home/jay/SimpleCV/SimpleCV/ImageClass.py", line 14497, in <module>
    from SimpleCV.DrawingLayer import *
  File "/home/jay/SimpleCV/SimpleCV/DrawingLayer.py", line 5, in <module>
    import svgwrite
ImportError: No module named svgwrite

It seems that svgwrite module is required. It was added in this commit 3d473c5

Addition of a new dependency should have been notified and added in setup.

[maraujop]

I agree with @jayrambhia , #565 fixes this

[tony72]

This needs to be fixed now. As it stands this cannot be installed on Linux/Raspberry Pi because of the svgwrite dependency. This should either be included in the download, or instructions and the location of svgwrite should have been provided. As it is I don't even know where you get svgwrite from to download and install. You guys just broke a good software library for accessing OpenCV from python. Not everyone is an expert on what dependencies are required for every library in Linux/Debian/Raspberry Pi, but we do notice when things are broken.

[brooksryba]

As @maraujop stated, this was already fixed in a previous pull request. I have submitted another pull request noting in the desktop / raspberry pi installation instructions to run the pip install.

[Bergholm]

Do this to install svgwrite:
1: Open LXTerminal
2: write: sudo pip install svgwrite

[jjosephs]

@Bergholm thank you for that solution.

@sightmachine I see this issue came up 5/6 months ago and after just installing SimpleCV in February 2014, I have this issue. Seems simple to fix, this issue should have been resolved ages ago.

[marquessbr]

thankyou brother!

[xamox]

Running off of development branch you are responsible for your environment as well as deployment updates such as running:
pip install -r requirements.txt

[akshayah3]

Is this fixed yet? I got the same dependency error now as well.

[rredpoppy]

Why is this closed? The issue still persists

[MInner]

Add that to the "sudo apt-get isntall ... && sudo pip install ..." list for Ubuntu 12.04, pls :)

[muroshi]

Still there, got this error with 14.04. Why doesn't it get solved?

[anthonyattard]

Still getting this error.