Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/Nicotine", line 7, in <module>
import gtk
File "debian/python2.5-gtk2/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gt.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 48, in <module>
ImportError: No module named cairo

yerga thank you for your help and patience
it appears i have deeper issues/problems.
nothing works in x terminal.
i can type in anything, but nothing happens there.
i even tried the help command..nothing happened
i tried help and 'help' (with the '')
i also closed it and reopened it and typen in app names that do work ok.nothing happens in x terminal

Ok, thanks.
It seems the gtk module is compiled with cairo support, so when importing the gtk module it needs the cairo module.
But the python2.5-cairo module isn't dependent of python2.5-gtk2 module.
Nicotine only have python2.5-gtk2 module as dependence, so it doesn't run.

If you install python2.5-runtime from the application manager, this error possibly won't happen, because python2.5-runtime will install python2.5-cairo.
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/pymaemo/

I will update nicotine in order this problem doesn't happen.