diff --git a/bin/run_local.py b/bin/run_local.py
--- a/bin/run_local.py
+++ b/bin/run_local.py
@@ -4,31 +4,10 @@
 
 import sys, os, socket
 
+from twisted.python.failure import Failure
 
-def fixSysPath():
-    root = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]),
-                                        '..')) + '/'
-    sys.path = [
-        root,
-        root + 'env/lib/python3.7',
-        root + 'env/lib/python3.7/plat-x86_64-linux-gnu',
-        root + 'env/lib/python3.7/lib-tk',
-        root + 'env/lib/python3.7/lib-old',
-        root + 'env/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload',
-        '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/',
-        '/usr/lib/python3.7',
-        #        '/usr/lib/python3.7/plat-x86_64-linux-gnu',
-        #        '/usr/lib/python3.7/lib-tk',
-        #        root + 'env/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages',
-        #        root + 'env/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0',
-        root + 'env/lib/python3.7/site-packages',
-        #        root + 'env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0',
-    ]
-
-
-fixSysPath()
-
-from twisted.python.failure import Failure
+# to support 'import light9' until I rearrange things better:
+sys.path.append('.')
 
 try:
     import tkinter