Adafruit i2c install issue

Just getting started, and I am having an issue with the following configuration:

Beaglebone Black Rev CDebian 4.14
Python 2.7

When attempt to execute Adafruit_BBIO.I2C as I2C:
“Adafruit_BBIO.I2C deprecated. Replace with Adafruit_GPIO.I2C”

However, after cloning the Adafruit_Python_GPIO module, and running setup.py install …

… I receive the following:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/var/lib/cloud9/examples/test_accel.py”, line 6, in
Accel = I2C.Device(0x1c, 2)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Adafruit_GPIO-1.0.3-py2.7.egg/Adafruit_GPIO/I2C.py”, line 98, in init
import Adafruit_PureIO.smbus
ImportError: No module named Adafruit_PureIO.smbus

This from simple python code:

import Adafruit_GPIO.I2C as I2C
import Adafruit_BBIO.GPIO as GPIO

Accel = I2C.Device(0x1c, 2)

I have not been able to determine how to install PureIO library. Comments on github suggest it may not have been released yet.

So, if Adafruit_BBIO retired, and Adafruit_PureIO not available, what should I be installing for an i2c library that is compatible with debian 4.14?

Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

Correction: Debian 9.5

On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 20:15:04 -0700 (PDT), Chris Bohler
<chris.bohler@sbcglobal.net> declaimed the
following:

When attempt to execute Adafruit_BBIO.I2C as I2C:
  "Adafruit_BBIO.I2C deprecated. Replace with Adafruit_GPIO.I2C"

  Note the message says "deprecated", not that it is no longer usable.

File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Adafruit_GPIO-1.0.3-py2.7.egg/Adafruit_GPIO/I2C.py",
line 98, in __init__
   import Adafruit_PureIO.smbus
ImportError: No module named Adafruit_PureIO.smbus

  Looking at the source code for I2C

"""
    def __init__(self, address, busnum, i2c_interface=None):
        """Create an instance of the I2C device at the specified address on
the
        specified I2C bus number."""
        self._address = address
        if i2c_interface is None:
            # Use pure python I2C interface if none is specified.
            import Adafruit_PureIO.smbus
            self._bus = Adafruit_PureIO.smbus.SMBus(busnum)
        else:
            # Otherwise use the provided class to create an smbus
interface.
            self._bus = i2c_interface(busnum)
"""

you can bypass Adafruit_PureIO by providing your own interface object. I
have not looked deeper into what such an object would be.

This from simple python code:

import Adafruit_GPIO.I2C as I2C
import Adafruit_BBIO.GPIO as GPIO

  I suspect if you are using Adafruit_GPIO you should also use

import Adafruit_GPIO.GPIO as GPIO

(that, itself, imports Adafruit_BBIO)

did you install smbus?
It is a prerequisite.
— Graham