Pan and KDE5

Just a quick note to anyone running the Alien KDE5 packages: The latest (April) update stops PAN from running. It complains about missing libgpgme-pthread. Recompiling PAN fails with the same error. It appears that libgpgme-pthread has been removed from the gpgme package by the upstream developers.

In fact, it isn't PAN that is complaining, but one of its dependencies - gmime. Recompiling and upgrading gmime against the latest gpgme, then recompiling PAN fixes the problem.

Indeed, it might not even be necessary to recompile PAN, but since I already had it there from the first failed attempt, I thought I might as well, just to be on the safe side.

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Pete

Thanks for the heads up.


Have you tried reinstalling the packages gmime and gpgme? Recompiling gmime seems a bit too much.

Also: have you tried mentioning the issue to Alien?

The problem is that gpgme is part of Alien KDE5, whereas gmime is a pure slackware package. Gmime is built against an older version of gpgme, before they removed the libgpgme-pthread upstream.

The only real solution is to rebuild gmime. Its not difficult. Just download the gmime source folder from slackware sources, and run the slackbuild as root (remember to bump the build number!). Simply upgrade to the newly created package. It took less than 5 minutes to recompile on my machine - its not a big package, and you don't need to actually change anything, except the build number.

And you don't need to recompile PAN! Just rebuilding gmime is sufficient.

Its just a compatibility issue between the existing slackware package and the Alien one. No doubt it will get sorted next time Slackware updates the gpgme package.

I've put a comment on Eric's blog about it, but I don't think its been through the moderation stage yet, so hasn't appeared.

Its quite possible - indeed probable - that there may be other packages affected by this. Anything that has gmime as a dependency is likely to fail, I would have thought.

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Pete