[kde-linux] Why does webkam require printer?

[Kevin Krammer]

On Saturday, 2010-01-16, Thomas Taylor wrote:
> On Friday 15 January 2010 03:20:21 am Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Thursday, 2010-01-14, Thomas Taylor wrote:
> > > On Thursday 14 January 2010 01:54:02 am Kevin Krammer wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Nice, never heard of it before.
> > Interestingly an application using one of our bindings, never heard
> >  of any of them before either.
> >
> >
> > Anyway. I think there must be a different problem. The look for the
> >  printer is initiated by a printer manufacturer's tool.
> > Can you try starting webkam from a console and see if it says
> >  anything specific itself?
> > And/or check $HOME/.xsession-errors (this is where log output of
> >  applications started through the launcher menu ends up).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kevin
> 
> Checked $~/.xsession-errors which showed no errors after running webkam.
> The output of webkam in a terminal is:
> 
> tom at laptop:~/Documents> webkam
> ./webkam_app.rb:2:in `require': no such file to load -- gst (LoadError)
>         from ./webkam_app.rb:2
>         from main.rb:1:in `require'
>         from main.rb:1
> 
> I'm assuming that means some dependency is not satisfied.

Most likely: the Ruby bindings for GStreamer
As far as I understand Ruby, "require" indicates which modules an application 
depends on and "gst" is a common appreviation for GStreamer.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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