[Bug-gnubg] error starting in linux

[steve berthiaume]

hello,

i get the following error when starting gnubg 0.14.3 on puppylinux 3.01:

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# gnubg
GNU Backgammon 0.16-develCopyright 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 by Gary Wong.
GNU Backgammon is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License
version 2, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it
under certain conditions.  Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GNU Backgammon.  Type "show warranty" for
details.
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/gnubg/scripts/gnubg.py", line 52, in ?
    import os.path
ImportError: No module named os.path
(No game)

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any ideas where to start?  let me know if i can post any other info.

thanks!
-steve