[Ifeffit] new Debian packages of horae-033

[Carlo U. Segre]

Exactly, Bruce.  I suspect that there is an installation from a tarball in
/usr/local and then he installed my packages which go into /usr since I am
angling to get them in the official distribution.  The /usr/local takes
precedence in the PATH and then there are conflicts.  In fact, artemis and
athena could be working fine because they are executing the /usr/local
copy.  I suggest that all the ifeffit and horae related stuff in
/usr/local be removed.

Carlo


On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Bruce Ravel wrote:

>On Wednesday 14 April 2004 08:57 am, mauro at rulp.org wrote:
>> According to the Debian official guidelines, I install software not
>> included in the official distribution in the directory
>> "/usr/local". The package install itself in the "/usr/share". This
>> made problems with the previous installed horae-* because the
>> Perl-Ifeffit libraries were installed in "/usr/local/lib". The rude
>> solution is simply renaming the old "Paths.pm" and "Group.pm" (in
>> *.old).
>
>The issue of where the library location when building from source or
>installing from a package is solvable without too much pain.  In the
>source code tarball there is a file called `private_install' which I
>use to install the software into my own user space on my computers.
>All it is a shell script wrapper around the "make install" command
>with a bunch of environment variables set appropriate to the task of
>installing into user space.
>
>You could modify that script easily enough to install in places
>concurrent with the Debian guidelines.  It's well commented and easy
>enough to understand.
>
>> Hephaestus doesn't start. It gives me the following error:
>>
>>            Name "Ifeffit::Tools::libdir" used only once: possible typo at
>>            /usr/bin/hephaestus line 97. Cannot open
>> '/hephaestus/vulcan.gif' in mode 'r' at /usr/lib/perl5/Tk/Image.pm line 21.
>
>This is weird.  That doesn't happen for me or for several other linux
>users who have tried Hephaestus so far and I am kind of baffled how it
>can be a problem for Hephaestus but not the other two programs.
>
>My suspicion is that you are still seeing the conflict you described
>in your message about the different installation locations.  That is,
>I think you have a Tools.pm file from some prior installation lying
>around that is being found by perl before the one from Carlo's latest
>debian package.
>
>Try this.  At the command line do "locate Tools.pm".  Note all the
>locations that it finds and note which one is the one from Carlo's
>package.  Try removing all the ones other than the one from Carlo's
>package and try running Hephaestus again.
>
>If that still doesn't work, there is more troubleshooting we can try.
>
>B
>
>P.S. The correct Tool.pm file is the one with the version number 033
>     near line 70.
>
>
>

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