Kopete freezes when previewing LaTeX

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Binary package hint: kopete

How to reproduce:
  1) Write some LaTeX code, e.g.
          $$\sum_{i=1}^{10} \frac{1}{x^i}$$
  2) Press CTRL-L in order to preview it
  3) Kopete freezes

[Philip Rodrigues (phil-kde)]

See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135997 . It's debatable whether it's a kde or a kubuntu bug, but the easiest solution would just be to replace /bin/sh with /bin/bash in the kubuntu version of kopete_latexconvert.sh

[Lydia Pintscher (lydia-pintscher)]

added upstream bug

[Milian Wolff (milianw)]

fixed upstream, could someone backport it?

see: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135997 and http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=799199

from the kde 4.0.4 changelog:
"Fix the latex script for dash based systems (like *buntu). Fixes bug 135997. See SVN commit 799199."

And since this only changes the shell script this fix should be valid for kde 3.5.9 as well.

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

uploaded to hardy-proposed, waiting for approval.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Is this an issue with KDE4? If not, the intrepid task ought to be set to "invalid", otherwise this needs to get fixed in Intrepid ASAP.

[Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning)]

I can confirm that the version in hardy-proposed 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu1.1 fixes the problem.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Copied to hardy-updates.

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

Invalid for intrepid since this fix was backported from KDE 4.0.