Bug 1355869

Summary:	Missing python package for solaar in fedora 24
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	nostritius
Component:	solaar	Assignee:	Richard Fearn <richardfearn>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	24	CC:	j, richardfearn, spacewar
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Description nostritius 2016-07-12 19:09:56 UTC

Description of problem:

I installed a new fedora 24 Workstation installation and installed solaar. From the desktop, it won't start up and when I tried the terminal, it printed the following error message:
Solaar: missing required package 'python-gi'


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.9.2

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install a new fedora 24 Workstation
2. install solaar package
3. try to start it either from the command line or the desktop

Actual results:
prints the error message above

Expected results:
the solaar menu should open

Additional info:
I installed several other packages before installing solaar, like wine, playonlinux, kodi, thunderbird, openjdk etc. But none of them were related to python. I also tried to install PyGObjects with "dnf install pygobjects*" but with the same result. I also have two receivers plugged in (I wanted to merge them into one)

Comment 1 Richard Fearn 2016-07-13 21:31:55 UTC

Can you try `dnf install python-gobject` and try running Solaar again?

Comment 2 nostritius 2016-07-14 07:04:46 UTC

I have it already installed and it prints the same error message

Comment 3 Richard Fearn 2016-07-14 10:50:47 UTC

Installing python-gobject fixes this for me.

With a new F24 workstation install, installing solaar installs:

 * python-libs (2.7)
 * python-pip
 * python2-setuptools
 * python (2.7)
 * python-six
 * python2-pyudev
 * unifying-receiver-udev
 * solaar

and then running Solaar gives the "missing required package" message.

`dnf install python-gobject` installs:

 * pycairo
 * python-gobject
 * python-gobject-base
 * python-xpyb

and then Solaar runs. (There are some Gtk warnings, but it does run.)

So I believe that solaar is missing a dependency on python-gobject.

nostritius, are you sure you have python-gobject and python-gobject-base installed? (NB these are different to python3-gobject and python3-gobject-base)

Comment 4 nostritius 2016-07-15 20:53:55 UTC

I found the problem, somehow I managed to break my python installation. Maybe this was because it firstly tried sudo easy_install gi. I did a clean install of fedora 24 Workstation and installed solaar plus python-gobject and it worked. it would be nice to add python-gobject as a dependency.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2016-08-06 14:12:44 UTC

solaar-0.9.2-4.20150528gitcf27328.fc24.4 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-f78be290da

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2016-08-09 01:26:49 UTC

solaar-0.9.2-4.20150528gitcf27328.fc24.4 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-f78be290da

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2016-08-28 13:21:55 UTC

solaar-0.9.2-4.20150528gitcf27328.fc24.4 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.