Open Clip Art import fails under Kubuntu

[Gordon Mckeown]

Using Inkscape 0.46 (built Mar 13 2008) under Kubuntu Hardy Beta with KDE as the desktop environment. Package version is 0.46-0ubuntu1. Have also seen this issue in an Inkscape 0.46 pre-release version from the PPA when using Gutsy.

Select "File -> Import From Open Clip Art Library" and try searching for any keyword, e.g. "tree"; the following error is seen:

Failed to receive the Open Clip Art Library RSS feed. Verify if the server name is correct in Configuration->Misc (e.g.: openclipart.org)

The server for OCAL is set in preferences as "openclipart.org" (without the quotes).

[Petr Dlouhý (petr-dlouhy)]

I can't confirm this behavior under Kde nor under Gnome (on Ubuntu). Can anyone else confirm this? Have you tried to delete your ~/.inkscape folder (or copy it somewere else if you don't want to lose your configuration)?

[Gordon Mckeown (thefluffyone)]

Tried removing ~/.inkscape as per your suggestion, but the error still occurred.

I then took a quick look at the code in which the error is generated. It is shown if a Gnome VFS call to download an RSS feed using HTTP fails.

This led me to check whether VFS libs were installed, and they were. The description of the core libgnomevfs2-0 suggests that HTTP support is included, where a little more digging shows that in fact this support is in the libgnomevfs2-extra package.

Have installed this "extra" package and the import function now works. It may be that this package is not installed by default on Kubuntu; I will check this when I'm back at home at the weekend.

[Petr Dlouhý (petr-dlouhy)]

Now I can confirm, that it is not working without the libgnomevfs2-extra, which sould be in the dependencies of Inkscape package.

[Gordon Mckeown (thefluffyone)]

It's probably now unimportant if Inkscape's dependencies are to be modified, but fwiw Kubuntu doesn't have that package installed by default.

[Kees Cook (kees)]

This is a packaging-specific bug, so I've opened the Ubuntu bug (rather than Inkscape project).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package inkscape - 0.46-0ubuntu2

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inkscape (0.46-0ubuntu2) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/control: add missing Gnome VFS extras Depends (LP: #210336).

 -- Kees Cook <email address hidden> Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:51:21 -0700

[Shaved Wookie (shavedwookie)]

I'm still getting this with inkscape-0.47~pre4-0ubuntu1(amd64) and inkscape-0.47~pre3-nightly9.10-8806-1(amd64) on Karmic.

Do we have a regression?

[Shaved Wookie (shavedwookie)]

I also have every package that has gnomevfs in its title installed, and am on Kubuntu Karmic AMD64

[Mark Fraser (launchpad-mfraz)]

Still getting this in Kubuntu 10.04 and Inkscape 0.47.0-2ubuntu2. Had to install libgnomevfs2-extra in order to get the import to work.

[yuri (yusswarm)]

Agree Mark Fraser ... same condition
get worked after install libgnomevfs2-extra

reproduced with Inkscape 0.48 on Ubuntu Natty x86_64