Pbi errors on 1.3 beta

[Ray]

I upgraded a version 1.2 to the new 1.3 beta on a spare hard drive that I had and although the upgrade option appeared to work correctly the couple of pbi's (Fiefox and Gimp) that I had installed did not work with a 'kdeinit could not launch this program' error message, the pbi's needed to be uninstalled and then reinstalled to get them to start.

I was under the impression that a pbi should wouk independantly of the os since dependencies could not be broken - any of you wiser people have a logical explanation for this.

Ray

[EvilBill]

Gimpshop worked for me. As for Firefox, I never tried the .pbi for that. Do a compile, those work.

Firefox compile

[dracheflieger]

You can't currently fetch them as both Firefoxes are on the portaudit list (because of mozilla)

[Ray]

Doesn't really answer the question though. I am interested in finding out why a pbi does not work when upgrading a PCBSD installation. The actual error message was:

Kdeinit could not launch '/usr/local/bin/gimp'

The question is 'why couldn't it launch it' and is this going to be an ongoing problem. What effect does this have on personal settings such as bookmarks and a host of other entities if say Thunderbird did not work between releases.

Ray

[TerryP]

in konsole what does it say when you type

file /usr/local/bin/gimp

??

Generally personal settings are stored in a configuration file in your home directory. A nice *nix standard idea that means you can run stuff under a no priv account and settings do not _always_ have to be global to all users of the program (that method is used too). As far as I know all your KDE settings are stored in ~/.kderc and ~/kde which is chuck full of stuff mimic'ing KDE's presence under /usr/local/

[EvilBill]

You can't currently fetch them as both Firefoxes are on the portaudit list (because of mozilla)

Huh, I didn't know that. I *installed the linux-FF 1.5.7 [something like that, not the 2]

*That was about 10 days ago, at least.

[Ray]

in konsole what does it say when you type

file /usr/local/bin/gimp

??

Generally personal settings are stored in a configuration file in your home directory. A nice *nix standard idea that means you can run stuff under a no priv account and settings do not _always_ have to be global to all users of the program (that method is used too). As far as I know all your KDE settings are stored in ~/.kderc and ~/kde which is chuck full of stuff mimic'ing KDE's presence under /usr/local/

'Could not run the specified command'

Thunderbird (st least in Linux) stores all it's mail folders in a special directory, which appears to be named differently everytime it is installed. Thus maintaing your mailboxes can become a chore if you have to delete and then reinstall - I don't really know what happens to the mail boxes and preferences when Thunderbird is deleted - guess I'll have to try it.

Ray

[TerryP]

Very funky

Thunderbird uses a random string of alphanumerics I think for creating it's users details in a folder. I always set it to /Lexar/Mail/Local_Folders because I keep my mailbox on my Lexar.

Sure the symlink should be under /usr/Lexar but I'm to darn lazy for some thing I use as often as Vim.

[Charles]

Ok, bug reported: http://bugs.pcbsd.org/bug.php?op=show&bugid=230&pos=0

[Ray]

Ok, bug reported: http://bugs.pcbsd.org/bug.php?op=show&bugid=230&pos=0

Thank you Charles. I was unsure whether the problem was with the upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3beta or with the pbi. For what it's worth - the best installation process I've ever used, a most excellent piece of work, kudos to the team - now if only I knew of a way to get back the original 'boot splash screen' ops:

Ray