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I am having problems running dcgui-qt. It was working fine till I did a normal update&upgrade yesterday. In the program's main windows everything is F***ed
up. no toolbar....nothing.
I have googled for a while and it seems that there is a probelm with libxml2 or something.
I am running Debian sid.
Any help would be appreciated. thanx
Today I encountered the same problem as you did. I use debian. Here it is how I solved it:
- for libxml2 I installed over the stable version: apt-get install libxml2=2.4.19-4woody2
as the 2.6.16-2 was creating the "CXml::xml_UTF8Toisolat1 error 5" strings
- for missing files ( "I/O warning : failed to load external entity ..." ) that are responsible for not saving setting to dcgui-qt, I noticed that the folder it was trying to read from was ~/.dc/.dc so I moved ~/.dc to ~/.dc/.dc
Thanx for your reply.
for the libxml2, I couldn't install it from woody. I tried the apt thing you said
but it didn't work. I am running unstable BTW.
Code:
spark:/home/onemanarmy# apt-get install libxml2=2.4.19-4woody2
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Version '2.4.19-4woody2' for 'libxml2' was not found
So I changed the sources.list link from unstable to stable, did apt-get update.and tried
once again what I had done before. And here is what I got !
it seems that the whole KDE and tons of other apps rely on that xml library and downgrading it means that they must be removed as well. I really don't know how did u get it installed without having these problems. Are you running testing?
I'm running debian unstable. I don't use kde, my window manager is fluxbox. Though, I have several kde apps that I use (konsole, kmixer..).
My downgrade wasn't that terrible , I don't remember of having so many packets changed.
I made this downgrade because it's to a stable version of libxml2, that I thought should work.
Another thing to do might be to find another version of libxml2 that is released just before this buggy one. I don't know yet how to do it.
Also, the files problem was due to me, because of the starting parameters to dcgui-qt.
Good luck,
Me.
PS: a small update: please try to downgrade to 2.6.11-5 with
apt-get install libxml2=2.6.11-5
thanx for your reply. However, that trick won't work for me because I have
done recently an 'apt-get clean' which removes any previously downloaded
deb archives. So right now, the /var/cache/apt/archives directory is empty.
Thanx anyway for your help.
BTW, there is already a grave bug report on debian's BTS for the dcgui-qt package.
you can do a search for libxml2 on packages.debian.org in the STABLE category, and you'll find the package. dl the package, dpkg -i libxml2_blah.deb. and only that is downgraded. at least on my debian box.
damn i hate freebsd (not to start a war or anything), i can't stand freebsd. i have to switch back. here's something i found online:
the fedora core 3 rpm maked debs with alien worked for me; there are some libraries that valknut says can't find them but they are in /usr/lib but with other name;u should simply make a link with the name vaclknut wants to that library and ok; ex lets say error is : not finding libbz2.so.01 and u have libbz2.so simply make link who's name is libbz2.s0.01 to libbz2.so
hmmm I hope you meant that tongue in cheek. Part of the reason I switched to debian was that dcgui-qt was easier to install because someone was willing to maintain this package without making a dime for their troubles. Just a friendly reminder.
"the fedora core 3 rpm maked debs with alien worked for me; there are some libraries that valknut says can't find them but they are in /usr/lib but with other name;u should simply make a link with the name vaclknut wants to that library and ok; ex lets say error is : not finding libbz2.so.01 and u have libbz2.so simply make link who's name is libbz2.s0.01 to libbz2.so" )
it is written by me on dcgui(valknut) forum : http://dcgui.berlios.de/forum/viewto...?p=11782#11782
i'm happy that are people hearing my advice
hehe, of course i appreciate the maintainer's work. i'm frustrated because i can't connect to the intranet hub at my school.
also, i tried the valknut from fc3. it gave me a world of errors. lib deps like that libXinerama.so.1 killed me. i have to get them by installing so much other crap from the red hat world
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, I don't remember of having so many packets changed.
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