On Wed, 12 May 2004, Mike Hearn wrote:
On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 16:25 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
I gave a shot at using autopackage to install Inkscape. Results are appended. Basically I ran into the following issues:
- Mozilla didn't automatically download the .package file so I had to wget it and run it from the commandline.
Hmm. Can you tell me what happened? I use Epiphany here and it worked fine. The files should be being serviced with a mime type of application/x-autopackage: is this not the case for you?
Yeah actually I noticed it worked after I sent in the report. It turned out mozilla *did* pop up the save dialog but for some strange reason it got buried under other windows so I didn't notice it. So whatever the issue was, it's completely orthogonal to autopackage.
- Cut-and-paste of the output from the command got messed up - perhaps because of ANSI sequences in the output?
What terminal emulator are you using? I use gnome-terminal and I haven't had problems with this. You can disable colour output by doing an
I was using Konsole, IIRC. The colors came through okay, it was the cut and paste that mussed things up.
export AUTOPACKAGE_NOCOLORS=1
before running anything.
FWIW we did testing on many different peoples computers before releasing 0.5 and it worked OK for nearly everyone, so there's something different in your environment we haven't anticipated here.
Yeah, I seem to be "lucky" at finding obscure ways of making things *not* work. ;-)
The system I was installing it on is a pretty much stock SuSE 9.0 system, except that I'm running it dual head. I thought it'd make a good test since I hadn't installed the current Inkscape dependencies on it (libsigc++, etc.)
Can you tell me what environment/system details would be useful to you to have to help characterize it?
Bryce