Exception: Could not find the theme about pelican-themes

[justinmayer]

Try the following and look through the output to see if it provides any relevant clues: pelican content -D -s pelicanconf.py -o output

[OE-Tester]

I have this same error, but only with "~" in path to THEMES - with full path it works.

[saimn]

Maybe the ~ which is not expanded. Please try with the complete path.

[ibayer]

Thanks for the suggestions. I just got it working, the thing is that
the instructions in the 'getpelican/pelican-themes/README.rst' don't work for me

According to http://docs.getpelican.com/en/3.2/settings.html#themes

THEME = '~/pelican-themes/waterspill-en/'

and

THEME = 'home/user/pelican-themes/waterspill-en/'

should work but that's not the case for me.

I can only use '# Specify a customized theme, via path relative to the settings file'

THEME = '../../pelican-themes/waterspill-en/'

Can anyone reproduce this? Otherwise I'm going to close this issue.

[crazyyi]

I checked the pelican source code and found that pelican is joining the pelican library path with "themes" and the path defined in THEME tag in pelicanconf.py.
So when I try to use bootstrap3 theme in pelican, I do the following steps:

1. download the theme from github, rename it to pelican-bootstrap3
2. in command line, type pelican-themes -vi your-path-to-theme, then the theme will be installed in pelican/lib/python/site-generateor/pelican/themes/pelican-bootstrap3
3. based on the source code of settings.py, the path should be [PELICAN_PATH] + "themes" + [PATH IN THEME TAG]. So in pelicanconf.py we defined THEME = pelican-bootstrap3.

It should work by now.