libjvm.so not found

Turns out this is actually not a bug in the pylucene package, but rather a result of upgrading from Lucid to Precise. The default-jre-headless package creates the /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk symlink upon a fresh install, but not during the distro upgrade.

Running aptitude reinstall default-jre-headless recreated the symlink and pylucene functions properly now.

an upgrade issue is a bug too
I can also reproduce it in a clean chroot.
unfortunately a rebuild in precise is complicated by bug 935380

the fix for bug 935380 requires a jcc update but its quite simple
a rebuild of pylucene fixes the issue then

see bug 1085256 for the jcc update

Julian, thanks for looking into the issue. I hope an updated package will eventually come out. I'll use the work-around for now.

I have submitted a rebuild, please test it when it is accepted. The release team will post instructions on how to do that in this bug.

Hello Steve, or anyone else affected,

Accepted pylucene into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pylucene/2.3.1-1.1ubuntu2.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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pylucene 2.3.1-1.1ubuntu2.1 from precise-proposed fixes the issue. I can import the lucene module in a python console. Thanks for fixing!

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This bug was fixed in the package pylucene - 2.3.1-1.1ubuntu2.1

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pylucene (2.3.1-1.1ubuntu2.1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * no change rebuild build depending on jcc 2.11-3ubuntu0.1 from updates
    fixes wrong libjvm rpath resulting in import failure (LP: #1085226)
 -- Julian Taylor <email address hidden> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:19:08 +0100