gnome-tweak-tool doesn't start due to "ImportError: No module named gi" error

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Published on 2012-02-06T15:57:21Z Indexed on 2012/03/31 23:42 UTC
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I am using Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome Shell and have a problem with gnome-tweak-tool. When I click on it, it does nothing and when I try to open with terminal it gives this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/gnome-tweak-tool", line 22, in <module>
import gi
ImportError: No module named gi

I googled a bit, found some solutions (reinstalled some python-gobject packages), but still didn't help./

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