/usr/bin/sync-engine does not exist

[Richard Davies]

Binary package hint: synce-sync-engine

Apologies if I haven't reported this correctly or missed something.

I have installed synce following instructions here http://www.synce.org/moin/SynceInstallation/Ubuntu/ModernDevice

running synce-list-partnerships it was unable to find sync-engine - the same when attempting to create a partnership in synce-trayicon

looking in /usr/bin/ I found synce-sync-engine but no sync-engine to resolve I created a symlinc for sync-engine pointing to synce-sync-engine and I am now able to view and create partnerships via command line and synce-trayicon.

Unless there is a reason for the ommission a symlink needs to be added for sync-engine > synce-sync-engine in /usr/bin.

Not sure were I was to have noted this but this is on Karmic (updated before synce installation)

[RaoulMillais (raoul-raoulmillais)]

I can confirm this problem, I followed the same guide, though I did not add the ppa, I used the packages in the karmic repositories. The symlink fixed the issue for me too.

[rdd (rdd)]

Instead of dealing with symlink, I just copied the file to the required name in the same folder. Worked.

[eval- (eval-)]

/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.synce.SyncEngine.service points to the wrong binary. Either that file or the binary should be changed in future releases. If that is the root, it is likely this bug is also behind:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synce-trayicon/+bug/469677
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synce-trayicon/+bug/469048

[timgoh0 (timgoh0)]

I've experienced the same issue, and have successfully got it to work by changing the path in /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.synce.SyncEngine.service.

Attached is a proposed patch.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This is fixed in the current version of synce-sync-engine in Lucid. Here is the patch included with the package:

From 8c98728f5f6d768be0d947840a833223dd3b7026 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonny Lamb <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:19:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] o.s.SyncEngine.service: use the correct path to the SyncEngine binary

Signed-off-by: Jonny Lamb <email address hidden>
---
 config/org.synce.SyncEngine.service | 2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/config/org.synce.SyncEngine.service b/config/org.synce.SyncEngine.service
index d2c035a..fba9d58 100644
--- a/config/org.synce.SyncEngine.service
+++ b/config/org.synce.SyncEngine.service
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 [D-BUS Service]
 Name=org.synce.SyncEngine
-Exec=/usr/bin/sync-engine --detached --logfile=~/.synce/sync-engine.log --once
+Exec=/usr/bin/synce-sync-engine --detached --logfile=~/.synce/sync-engine.log --once