language-selector-gnome refuses to start with message "E: need Zenity

[Mélodie]

Hello,

In Ubuntu Trusty freshly installed, the gnome-language-selector program does not start. When invoking in console it sends messages related to python3 among which can be seen "E : Zenity missing" (or that sort of message).

Once **zenity installed**, the program starts and **works perfectly**.

I have seen the other recent bug reports related to the program : for me it has worked so far. (Always using it once only, just after a fresh install to complete the eventual needed language packs which can be missing, for the French language).

I suggest rebuilding the package, adding zenity in the list of dependencies needed.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

zenity gets installed on a fresh Ubuntu trusty. This is the same issue as bug #1450147, isn't it?

[Mélodie (meets)]

Hello,

Yes you are right (though the version used isn't the same). In Trusty it used to work without it. Zenity is GUI made available for bash, and gnome-language-selector uses python3.

If gnome-language-selector is dependant of im-config (why that by the way?) then… what do you say? Should one of these two bug reports have their title changed? "Trusty + Vivid : im-config missing zenity"?

(while the other of the two bug reports would be removed?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

I already made this one a duplicate of the other. I also have attached patches for trusty, wily and xenial to the other bug.

[Mélodie (meets)]

Gunnar, thank you very much. I hope this will follow it's way upstream and be solved by the time next edition comes out!