Synaptic recommends libsexymm2, which is useless (missing Perl bindings)

[Pizuz]

Binary package hint: checkgmail

The problem here is: Checkgmail depends on Gtk2::Sexy in order to make links clickable.

Synaptic tells me that Checkgmail recommends installing libsexymm2 which would be the right choice here, however Checkgmail also needs the appropriate Perl bindings in order to actually work with it.

So, the solution for this would be making Checkgmail recommend the libsexy2 Perl bindings instead, which would have to be included into Ubuntu, because there's no package, yet.

[Léo Studer (leo-studer)]

I confirm this.

[Greg T. (gjtbiz)]

To make matters worse, manual build and installation of Gtk2::Sexy on my Gutsy (i386) setup fails. The command "sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Gtk2::Sexy'" generates the following error message:

mkdir /usr/local/man: File exists at /usr/share/perl/5.8/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 112
make: *** [pure_site_install] Error 17
  /usr/bin/make install -- NOT OK

This underscores the need for a package in the repos.

[Greg T. (gjtbiz)]

There is an alternative way of installing Gtk2::Sexy, as noted in this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=514106

[speeves (speeves)]

I would think that checkgmail should be pulled from the stable repos. It is not ready for primetime. On Gutsy, (so far), I have had to install dh-make-perl, (plus its dependencies), libextutils-depends-perl,
, and now I am getting more dependency issues from:
sudo dh-make-perl --build --cpan Gtk2::Sexy

Found: Gtk2-Sexy 0.02 (libgtk2-sexy-perl arch=any)
======================================================================
Could not find the dependencies for the requested module
Module::Depends::Intrusive reports: Can't locate ExtUtils/PkgConfig.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /home/speeves/Gtk2-Sexy-0.02 /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at /home/speeves/Gtk2-Sexy-0.02/Makefile.PL line 10.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/speeves/Gtk2-Sexy-0.02/Makefile.PL line 10.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Module/Depends/Intrusive.pm line 76.

Generated error: Error: Can't locate ExtUtils/PkgConfig.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /home/speeves/Gtk2-Sexy-0.02 /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at /home/speeves/Gtk2-Sexy-0.02/Makefile.PL line 10.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/speeves/Gtk2-Sexy-0.02/Makefile.PL line 10.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Module/Depends/Intrusive.pm line 76.

Please check if your module depends on Module::Install
for its build process - Automatically finding its
dependencies is unsupported, please specify them manually
using the 'depends' option.
======================================================================

If anything, the dependencies need to be updated in the package files, and the workaround in:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4053269&postcount=10

needs to be implemented in the postinst of checkgmail, (since we don't seem to have a deb package associated with Gtk2::Sexy). Any volunteers?

[Elias K Gardner (zorkerz)]

In hardy checkgmail installs fine. It recommends two packages libcrypt-simple-perl which allows encryption of your password and libsexymm2 for clicking links in checkgmail. libsexymm2 is the problem because it does not appear to enable links as its supposed to.

[Pizuz (florian-fahr)]

That's the reason why I filed this bug, in the first place. Ubuntu doesn't include the necessary Perl bindings to enable Checkgmail to make use of libsexymm2.

[Gregory (biuro-gemme)]

Still an issue in Hardy beta.

[Konrad Paumann (kopa)]

still an issue in hardy release.

[Rafael F. (rfcompte)]

still an issue in hardy 8.04.1

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)]

There is an outstanding needs-packaging bug for libgtk2-sexy-perl: Bug 151564

[Kemel Zaidan aka Legendario (kemelzaidan)]

To me, on Hardy, it installs fine, but when i try to run it from the terminal, it shows me the errors, as I reported in the duplicated bug.

Erasing the configuration files on the dot folder must correct this problem.

[fuhrysteve (fuhrysteve)]

Checkgmail package should DEFINITELY depend on whatever packages it needs to NOT store passwords as plain text. I'm not sure which packages this requires, but:

sudo apt-get install checkgmail libcrypt-simple-perl libsexymm2

does it for me.

kthx

[Kemel Zaidan aka Legendario (kemelzaidan)]

I totally agree with fuhrysteve.

[kurt belgrave (trinikrono)]

Hey guys, i want to help you get this bug triaged.
Firstly are you affected in the latest (lucid) release of ubuntu.
Secondly you can try checkgmail -update
Cheers

[kurt belgrave (trinikrono)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed.I can confirm that it works in Jaunty.

If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please follow the instructions for "How to request new packages" at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports#request-new-packages