Wavesurfer dont start in jaunty

[Leonardo Silva Amaral]

Binary package hint: wavesurfer

Since my first Jaunty attempt (alpha 3 if im not wrong) wavesurfer dont work. Ive made a dist-upgrade yesterday, and it still refuse to start. The error:

leleobhz@dsp2:~$ wavesurfer
Error in startup script: unknown color name "black"
    (processing "-background" option)
    invoked from within
"canvas $splash.c -width $width -height $height -bg black -highlightthickness 0"
    (in namespace eval "::splash" script line 138)
    invoked from within
"namespace eval ::splash {

 variable progress
 variable filecount
 set filecount 0
 set logodata {
  R0lGODdhuAA1APcAAAQCBXOElqLF67iCVHhWVDpFUJWjsevFf..."
    (file "/usr/bin/wavesurfer" line 36)
leleobhz@dsp2:~$

More data:

leleobhz@dsp2:~$ LANG=C lsb_release -rd ; LANG=C apt-cache policy wavesurfer
Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04
wavesurfer:
  Installed: 1.8.5-2ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.8.5-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.8.5-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[timobaumann (timobaumann)]

with the released Jaunty (up to date), the error I get looks like this:

Error in startup script: unknown option "-troughcolor"
    while executing
".dummyscrollbar cget -troughcolor"
    (in namespace eval "::wavebar" script line 8)
    invoked from within
"namespace eval wavebar {
 variable Info

 if {![info exists Info(Initialized)]} {
  scrollbar .dummyscrollbar
  button .dummybutton

  set Info(Optio..."
    (file "/usr/lib/wsurf1.8/wavebar.tcl" line 12)
    invoked from within
"_source /usr/lib/wsurf1.8/wavebar.tcl"
    ("uplevel" body line 1)
    invoked from within
"uplevel _source [list $file]"
    (procedure "source" line 5)
    invoked from within
"source /usr/lib/wsurf1.8/wavebar.tcl"
    ("package ifneeded" script)
    invoked from within
"package require -exact wsurf $version"
    (file "/usr/bin/wavesurfer" line 2600)

[timobaumann (timobaumann)]

As a workaround, you can use the binary release from KTH, which even works with 64-bit ubuntu when you install linux32.

[Hideki Yamane (henrich)]

Well, Jaunty is EOLed and I doubt it still exists. This package in Ubuntu12.04 works, so changed status.
If you have more information for it, please add.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for wavesurfer (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]