[rkward-devel] RKWard 0.5.0c-test5

[meik michalke]

hi finn,

thanks for looking after it!

Am Montag 30 März 2009 13:11:02 schrieb stfs:
> Compiling now works.

that's a relief :-)

> I first installed it the '.deb' way (ie. making the deb and double click
> it).
> Rkward could be started from command line but not from menu. Menu had no
> icon.
> I believe the reason is that /usr/local/bin/rkward does not exist.

if you're looking for something to be installed in /usr/local i wonder how you 
created the .deb package? did you use the diff i created for hardy?
 o http://reaktanz.de/stuff/R/rkward_0.5.0c-test5-1~hardy1.diff.gz
   (see below how to apply it)

what does the command "which rkward" return?

in general, if you compile software from source via make or something similar, 
it usually gets installed in /usr/local/(bin|share|lib...), to not mess up the 
distribution's installation (i.e. overwriting files that belong to a package, 
"make install" will not warn you if it does so). official distribution 
packages on the other hand usually install to /usr/(bin|share|lib...), so do 
the .deb packages thomas is providing. moreso, a .deb should *not* install to 
/usr/local, to not overwrite your own compiled programs. you could say, 
everything in /usr/local is your personal playground, and debian packages 
should stick to /usr instead.

the trouble especially with ubuntu 8.04 is that rkward 0.5.0 is a kde4 
application, and that this version of ubuntu expects the installation of all 
kde4 stuff to /usr/lib/kde4/(bin|share|lib...) -- that's why you had to add 
that to your PATH prior to compilation, because it is not a common path... 
(ubuntu 8.10 puts everything in /usr again, so we're not in any path trouble 
there).

alltogether, you should look for the rkward binary in /usr/lib/kde4/bin, and 
check if the menu entry tries to start /usr/lib/kde4/bin/rkward (with full 
path). this actually should be accomplished by the diff above:

 - get rkward_0.5.0c-test5.orig.tar.gz from
   http://rkward.sourceforge.net/temp/
 - get rkward_0.5.0c-test5-1~hardy1.diff.gz from above
 - tar xzvf rkward_0.5.0c-test5.orig.tar.gz
 - cd rkward_0.5.0c-test5
 - zcat ../rkward_0.5.0c-test5-1~hardy1.diff.gz | patch -p1
 - chmod a+x debian/rules
 - export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/kde4/bin
 - fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -b -D
 - dpkg -i ../rkward_0.5.0c-test5-1~hardy1_i386.deb

have you tried to install the precompiled ubuntu .deb yet?
 o http://reaktanz.de/stuff/R/rkward_0.5.0c-test5-1~hardy1_i386.deb

> Finally I found the 'deleted' menu as an xdg-file in
> ~/.local/share/applications/ as soon as I deleted it from there it
> turned up in the menu with an icon and working too.

whenever you change a menu setting, a local copy with those changes will be 
createrd in ~/.local/share/applications/, which will then be used instead of 
the system files. please make sure that there isn't any rkward file left here 
to test if the system wide installation works.

> Right now I think there may be a problem with the .deb (it does not
> appear to create /usr/local/bin/rkward).

as explained above, it's not supposed to ;-)

> This file was created by source install instead.

which is correct, but not for the .deb file. could you give the precompiled 
version another try or test the compilation as described above?


viele gruesse :: m.eik

-- 
  dipl. psych. meik michalke
  abt. f"ur diagnostik und differentielle psychologie
  institut f"ur experimentelle psychologie
  heinrich-heine-universit"at d"usseldorf
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