Ruby Gnome-Panel applets are broken

[Matt Greensmith]

Binary package hint: ruby-gnome2

libpanel-applet2-ruby 0.19.0-2ubuntu1
libpanel-applet2-ruby1.8 0.19.0-2ubuntu1

These packages are have a bug per Debian bug report #535542 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=535542)

I can confirm the same issue on Karmic.

Debian have released 0.19.0-3 version which apparently fixes this issue, how does the upstream sync/merge process normally work?

I'm new here, this is my first bug report. Please let me know if I'm going about this the wrong way.

[Ulf Rompe (rompe)]

How to build a usable package:

sudo apt-get build-dep libpanel-applet2-ruby1.8
mkdir /tmp/bla
cd /tmp/bla
apt-get source libpanel-applet2-ruby1.8
cd ruby-gnome2-0.19.0
sed -i -e's/\.so$/*.so/' debian/libpanel-applet2-ruby1.8.install
sudo dpkg -i ../libpanel-applet2-ruby1.8_0.19.0-2ubuntu2_*.deb

[Matt Greensmith (matt-greensmith)]

I attempted to follow Ulf's instructions to install libpanel-applet2-ruby1.8, but there were no debs in the package I downloaded. Building the library manually works just as well, and I now have a working sshmenu again.

Updated instructions:

sudo apt-get build-dep libpanel-applet2-ruby1.8
mkdir /tmp/bla
cd /tmp/bla
apt-get source libpanel-applet2-ruby1.8
cd ruby-gnome2-0.19.0/panel-applet
ruby extconf.rb
make
sudo make install

[Dominik George (natureshadow)]

Ulf missed out the dpkg-buildpackage command after sed.

Perhaps some dev should spend 3 seconds on that?

-nik

[Ulf Rompe (rompe)]

Dominik, thanks for pointing that out. I just failed to paste it in. So these are complete instructions for copy&paste, you can paste the whole block into your shell at once:

sudo apt-get build-dep libpanel-applet2-ruby1.8
mkdir /tmp/bla
cd /tmp/bla
apt-get source libpanel-applet2-ruby1.8
cd ruby-gnome2-0.19.0
sed -i -e's/\.so$/*.so/' debian/libpanel-applet2-ruby1.8.install
dpkg-buildpackage
sudo dpkg -i ../libpanel-applet2-ruby1.8_0.19.0-2ubuntu2_*.deb

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Nothing to do with sshmenu per se. The ruby-gnome2 fix has been commited.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ruby-gnome2 - 0.19.0-2ubuntu3

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ruby-gnome2 (0.19.0-2ubuntu3) karmic; urgency=low

  * Install missing panelapplet2_main.so (LP: #402761)

 -- Cesare Tirabassi <email address hidden> Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:48:06 +0200