linkchecker can't find localization files

[florianjacob]

When I call linkchecker on the command line, it exits before doing anything with this error message on trying to access its localization files:

$> linkchecker
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/linkchecker", line 30, in <module>
    import linkcheck
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/linkcheck/__init__.py", line 137, in <module>
    init_i18n()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/linkcheck/__init__.py", line 124, in init_i18n
    i18n.init(configdata.name.lower(), locdir, loc=loc)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/linkcheck/i18n.py", line 94, in init
    install_language(default_language)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/linkcheck/i18n.py", line 100, in install_language
    languages=[get_lang(language)], fallback=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/linkcheck/i18n.py", line 110, in get_translator
    languages=languages, class_=translatorklass, fallback=fallback)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/gettext.py", line 553, in translation
    with open(mofile, 'rb') as fp:
IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: u'/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/linkchecker.mo'

The problem seems to be in the directory structure created by setup.py:

/usr/share/locale/
├── fr/
│   └── LC_MESSAGES/
│       └── linkchecker.mo/
│           └── fr.mo
├── es/
│   └── LC_MESSAGES/
│       └── linkchecker.mo/
│           └── es.mo
└── de/
    └── LC_MESSAGES/
        └── linkchecker.mo/
            └── de.mo

I assume the lowest level of the tree is created accidentally, but I did not understand what causes this behaviour. Workaround is to start linkchecker with LC_ALL=C.

version: linkchecker 9.4 from AUR
python 2.7
setuptools 36.2.7-1

[steffsson]

I have the same Problem, also installed linkchecker and linkchecker-gui from AUR.
Solved it temporarily by moving /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/linkchecker.mo/de.mo to /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/linkchecker.mo.

[dpalic]

Thank you for the issue report. Sadly this project is dead, and a new team is around with https://github.com/linkcheck/linkchecker
for more details please see: #708
Also please close this issue and report it freshly on the new repo https://github.com/linkcheck/linkchecker/issues

[florianjacob]

@dpalic thanks for the hint! Closing this here now.