# Chroma plugin on debian stretch

**URL:** https://discourse.beets.io/t/chroma-plugin-on-debian-stretch/235
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [December 11, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/chroma-plugin-on-debian-stretch/235 "2017-12-11T13:46:10Z")
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### Author: ![wa0815](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@wa0815](https://discourse.beets.io/u/wa0815)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/chroma-plugin-on-debian-stretch/235/1 "2017-12-11T13:46:10Z")

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I tried to use chroma plugin on debian stretch with the distributed beets version .

```
~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Debian
Description:	Debian GNU/Linux 9.3 (stretch)
Release:	9.3
Codename:	stretch

```

But I get the following error:

```
~$ beet version
** error loading plugin chroma:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/beets/beets/plugins.py", line 253, in load_plugins
    namespace = __import__ (modname, None, None)
  File "/usr/share/beets/beetsplug/chroma.py", line 27, in <module>
    import acoustid
ImportError: No module named acoustid

beets version 1.3.18
plugins: convert, mbsync, smartplaylist

```

What do I have to install additionally ?  
$ aptitude search acoustid  
i acoustid-fingerprinter - Fingerabdruckprogramm Acoustid  
p acoustid-fingerprinter:i386 - Fingerabdruckprogramm Acoustid  
p python-acoustid - Acoustid interface implementation and Chromaprint bindings  
p python3-acoustid - Acoustid interface implementation and Chromaprint bindings (Python 3)

Thanks for any hint !

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### Author: ![wa0815](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@wa0815](https://discourse.beets.io/u/wa0815)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/chroma-plugin-on-debian-stretch/235/2 "2017-12-11T13:49:43Z")

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I answered it already myself:  
The python bindings were missing:

“aptitude install python-acoustid” did it.

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### Author: ![dorade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b3f665/32.png) [@dorade](https://discourse.beets.io/u/dorade)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/chroma-plugin-on-debian-stretch/235/3 "2017-12-11T20:35:23Z")

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I didn’t have an answer, but I’m glad that you’ve figured it out. 🙂