plucker-setup is broken since pilot-xfer 0.12.x
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plucker (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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| plucker (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: plucker
Install of plucker and plucker-desktop appeared to go OK:
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root@centaur:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
libnetpbm10 libwxgtk2.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libnetpbm10 libwxgtk2.
0 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/3245kB of archives. After unpacking 11.0MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
Selecting previously deselected package libnetpbm10.
(Reading database ... 131482 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libnetpbm10 (from .../libnetpbm10
Selecting previously deselected package libwxgtk2.
Unpacking libwxgtk2.
Selecting previously deselected package netpbm.
Unpacking netpbm (from .../netpbm_
Selecting previously deselected package plucker.
Unpacking plucker (from .../plucker_
Selecting previously deselected package plucker-desktop.
Unpacking plucker-desktop (from .../plucker-
Setting up libnetpbm10 (10.0-11) ...
Setting up libwxgtk2.
Setting up netpbm (10.0-11) ...
Setting up plucker (1.8-20ubuntu1) ...
Setting up plucker-desktop (1.8-20ubuntu1) ...
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According to http://
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sdalley@centaur:~$ plucker-setup
Setting up Plucker 1.8 in /home/sdalley...
Copying default config files...
The program 'pilot-xfer' is missing so the Palm applications cannot be installed. You'll find them in /usr/share/
Installation Finished
root@centaur:
root@centaur:
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Hmm, no pilot-xfer. What package is supposed to supply this? Package plucker Suggests: imagemagick, libjpeg-progs, pilot-link, plucker-desktop
Maybe it's in "pilot-link". Try installing and doing a "which pilot-xfer":
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root@centaur:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
pilot-link
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/742kB of archives. After unpacking 1745kB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Selecting previously deselected package pilot-link.
(Reading database ... 132137 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking pilot-link (from .../pilot-
Setting up pilot-link (0.12.2-7ubuntu1) ...
root@centaur:
/usr/bin/pilot-xfer
root@centaur:
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Aha, there it is. Package pilot-link should be a REQUIRED dependency of plucker. Let's try running plucker-setup again:
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sdalley@centaur:~$ plucker-setup
Setting up Plucker 1.8 in /home/sdalley...
Copying default config files...
The configuration file .pluckerrc already exists in your home directory.
Do you wish to replace it? <y/n> [n] y
The configuration file home.html already exists in your Plucker directory.
Do you wish to replace it? <y/n> [n] y
The configuration file exclusionlist.txt already exists in your Plucker directory.
Do you wish to replace it? <y/n> [n] y
The program 'pilot-xfer' is missing so the Palm applications cannot be installed. You'll find them in /usr/share/
Installation Finished
sdalley@centaur:~$ ls -lR /usr/share/plucker/
/usr/share/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 192 2007-07-16 23:18 comics
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 152 2007-07-16 23:18 config
/usr/share/
total 72
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24154 2006-11-24 08:54 comics.com.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15689 2006-11-24 08:54 kingfeatures.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4723 2006-11-24 08:54 other.comics.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21701 2006-11-24 08:54 ucomics.com.list
/usr/share/
total 20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3549 2006-11-24 08:54 exclusionlist.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1289 2006-11-24 08:54 home.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10575 2006-11-24 08:54 pluckerrc.sample
sdalley@centaur:~$
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Well, well, that's three lies in a row. pilot-xfer is NOT missing, there are NO Palm applications anywhere under /usr/share/plucker, and Installation is NOT finished.
Is there something silly I've forgotten?
| Rich Johnson (nixternal) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in plucker: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Simon Dalley (dalley-simon) wrote | #2 |
| Rich Johnson (nixternal) wrote | #3 |
| Ludovic Rousseau (ludovic-rousseau-gmail) wrote | #4 |
| Ludovic Rousseau (ludovic-rousseau-gmail) wrote | #5 |
| Changed in plucker (Debian): | |
| status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
| Changed in plucker (Debian): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Hi Simon!
Yes we know that Plucker is unfortunately broken. Good news though! Plucker has resumed development it seems and hopefully we will have a good package one of these days. Right now we are using the Debian package directly and the developer there decided it was a good idea not to build the Plucker-Desktop because it is destroyed. Well, this is in Gutsy, not Feisty. But yes I do know it is broken and I promise I am working on getting this fixed. I wish I could tell you it would be soon, but that depends on 2 things. 1) Plucker development stays active, and 2) the Plucker developers have decided to use a CURL like library called libhttp. I am in contact and working with the libhttp developer to get the new library package into Debian first, and then I will sync it here. That one library will help us fix Plucker to a much better state than it is currently in. Thanks for your report!