ecflow-client does not contain resource files needed for ecflow_ui

[I Russell]

Hello,

I just tried the ecflow-client package on Ununtu 18.04 and noticed that ecflow_ui does not start up because it requires resource files to be installed in /usr/share/ecflow. These can be found in the share/ecflow/etc/ directory of the ecFlow source code.

Best regards,
Iain

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[marcofgalli (marcofgalli)]

Further details on this bug can be found in https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ecflow/+question/688184

[actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666)]

It's in the Debian package which is weird
https://debian.pkgs.org/10/debian-main-amd64/ecflow-client_4.12.0-1_amd64.deb.html

[marcofgalli (marcofgalli)]

I've found a workaround for ubuntu 18.04:

1) I downloaded the source code of the package from the original developers (making sure it was the same version the ubuntu .deb package is):

  $ wget https://confluence.ecmwf.int/download/attachments/8650755/ecFlow-4.8.0-Source.tar.gz?api=v2 -O ecFlow-4.8.0-Source.tar.gz

2) I gunzipped and untarred the downloaded package in ~/ecflow_src

3) I changed my directory to /usr/share and then created the link to the corresponding folder in the extracted archive:

  $ sudo ln -s ~/ecflow_src/ecFlow-4.8.0-Source/share/ecflow .

It seems to work, but of course it's not an elegant solution and moreover it's not straightforward to be available for everyone. It would be better to include the aforementioned files in the .deb package.

[marcofgalli (marcofgalli)]

As for comment #3, the package you are referring to seems to include what is missing in my ubuntu .deb package. However, my ubuntu version is 18.04, which has ecflow version 4.8.0 and not 4.12.0 as you linked

[Rostislav (rostislav-kouznetsov)]

Seems to be fixed in both 18.04 and 20.04.
In 18.04:

$ ls /usr/share/ecflow/etc/
ecflow_ui_test.def ecflowview_icon_conf.json ecflowview_panels.json
ecflow_ui_test_server_scripts.tar.gz ecflowview_menu_conf.json ecflowview_query_conf.json
ecflow_ui_test_session_template.json ecflowview_menus.json ecflowview_server_conf.json
ecflowview_attribute_conf.json ecflowview_notification_conf.json ecflowview_sstate_conf.json
ecflowview_gui.json ecflowview_nstate_conf.json ecflowview_view_conf.json
ecflowview_gui_server.json ecflowview_palette.json sounds
ecflowview_highlighter.json ecflowview_panel_conf.json viewer.qss

In 20.04:
$ ls /usr/share/ecflow/etc/
ecflow_ui_test.def ecflowview_menu_conf.json ecflowview_server_conf.json
ecflow_ui_test_server_scripts.tar.gz ecflowview_menus.json ecflowview_sstate_conf.json
ecflow_ui_test_session_template.json ecflowview_notification_conf.json ecflowview_view_conf.json
ecflowview_attribute_conf.json ecflowview_nstate_conf.json shortcuts.txt
ecflowview_gui.json ecflowview_palette.json sounds
ecflowview_gui_server.json ecflowview_panel_conf.json viewer.qss
ecflowview_highlighter.json ecflowview_panels.json
ecflowview_icon_conf.json ecflowview_query_conf.json