title: ImportError: No module named zbar on Linux Mint
body: <p>I want to use zbar with python on Linux Mint.</p>
  
  <p>I tried apt-get zbar and I didn't find any packages.</p>
  
  <p>So I tried to use </p>
  
  <pre><code>apt-get install zbar-tools 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and that seemed to work.</p>
  
  <p>I tried to run basic example code that starts with:</p>
  
  <pre><code>#!/usr/bin/python
  from sys import argv
  import zbar
  import Image
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, that code crashes with the error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "./p4.py", line 3, in &lt;module&gt;
      import zbar
  ImportError: No module named zbar
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Normally I would expect to find some file named zbar.py and I would just add that to my path.</p>
  
  <p>I don't see anything on my system that looks like a nice, neat zbar file or directory.</p>
  
  <p>I have found:</p>
  
  <pre><code>./var/cache/apt/archives/zbar-tools_0.10+doc-8_amd64.deb
  ./var/lib/dpkg/info/zbar-tools.list
  ./var/lib/dpkg/info/zbar-tools.md5sums
  ./usr/bin/zbarcam
  ./usr/bin/zbarimg
  ./usr/share/doc/zbar-tools
  ./usr/share/man/man1/zbarimg.1.gz
  ./usr/share/man/man1/zbarcam.1.gz
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and I suppose that I could add all of those to my path, but that seems like desperate overkill.</p>
  
  <p>Suggestions are welcome.  Thanks.</p>
  
  <p>Edit:
  Following the suggestion of Jakob Weisblat, I tried pip as root and I believe I need to reinstall zbar from source because pip needs .h files that it can't find.</p>
  
  <p>I tried pip and got:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Downloading/unpacking zbar
  
    Getting page https://pypi.python.org/simple/zbar/
    URLs to search for versions for zbar:
    * https://pypi.python.org/simple/zbar/
    Analyzing links from page https://pypi.python.org/simple/zbar/
      Skipping link https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.5/z/zbar/zbar-0.10.win32-py2.5.exe#md5=8566371bbc9010fc9a953b5ea7cac54f (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/zbar/); unknown archive format: .exe
      Skipping link https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/z/zbar/zbar-0.10.win32-py2.6.exe#md5=820f4abfdae56997f1fc84b6fd1101fb (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/zbar/); unknown archive format: .exe
      Found link https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/z/zbar/zbar-0.10.tar.bz2#md5=f82f03485a504538314d7d11b7450178 (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/zbar/), version: 0.10
      Found link https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/z/zbar/zbar-0.10.tar.gz#md5=09568253d65e13e252987e3fd02e5ec8 (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/zbar/), version: 0.10
      Found link https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/z/zbar/zbar-0.10.zip#md5=9e99ef2f6b471131120982a0dcacd64b (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/zbar/), version: 0.10
      Skipping link http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.txt (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/zbar/); unknown archive format: .txt
      Skipping link http://zbar.sourceforge.net/ (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/zbar/); not a file
      Skipping link mailto:spadix@users.sourceforge.net (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/zbar/); unknown archive format: .net
    Using version 0.10 (newest of versions: 0.10, 0.10, 0.10)
    Downloading zbar-0.10.tar.bz2
  
    Downloading from URL https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/z/zbar/zbar-0.10.tar.bz2#md5=f82f03485a504538314d7d11b7450178 (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/zbar/)
    Running setup.py egg_info for package zbar
  
      running egg_info
      creating pip-egg-info/zbar.egg-info
      writing pip-egg-info/zbar.egg-info/PKG-INFO
      writing top-level names to pip-egg-info/zbar.egg-info/top_level.txt
      writing dependency_links to pip-egg-info/zbar.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
      writing manifest file 'pip-egg-info/zbar.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
      warning: manifest_maker: standard file '-c' not found
  
  
      reading manifest file 'pip-egg-info/zbar.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
      reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
      writing manifest file 'pip-egg-info/zbar.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
    Source in /tmp/pip-build-root/zbar has version 0.10, which satisfies requirement zbar
  Installing collected packages: zbar
  
    Running setup.py install for zbar
  
      Running command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-root/zbar/setup.py';exec(compile(open(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-SM_vAe-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed
      running install
      running build
      running build_ext
      building 'zbar' extension
  
      creating build
      creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7
      x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c zbarmodule.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/zbarmodule.o
  
      In file included from zbarmodule.c:24:0:
  
      zbarmodule.h:26:18: fatal error: zbar.h: No such file or directory
  
      compilation terminated.
  
      error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1
  
      Complete output from command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-root/zbar/setup.py';exec(compile(open(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-SM_vAe-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed:
  
      running install
  
  running build
  
  running build_ext
  
  building 'zbar' extension
  
  creating build
  
  creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7
  
  x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c zbarmodule.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/zbarmodule.o
  
  In file included from zbarmodule.c:24:0:
  
  zbarmodule.h:26:18: fatal error: zbar.h: No such file or directory
  
  compilation terminated.
  
  error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1
  
  ----------------------------------------
  
  Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-root/zbar/setup.py';exec(compile(open(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-SM_vAe-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-root/zbar
  
  Exception information:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 139, in main
      status = self.run(options, args)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 271, in run
      requirement_set.install(install_options, global_options, root=options.root_path)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 1185, in install
      requirement.install(install_options, global_options, *args, **kwargs)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 592, in install
      cwd=self.source_dir, filter_stdout=self._filter_install, show_stdout=False)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/util.py", line 662, in call_subprocess
      % (command_desc, proc.returncode, cwd))
  InstallationError: Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-root/zbar/setup.py';exec(compile(open(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-SM_vAe-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-root/zbar
  </code></pre>