Bug 187516

The gdesklets maintainer needs to request a bugzilla entry for this package and
adjust the component/distribution when this is done. I'll assign it manually to
him for now.

Actually gdesklets is in Fedora Extras products list. Could you reproduce the
bug with the terminal (Application --> Accessories --> Terminal) then type
gdeskkets --debug?

$ gdesklets --debug

"You're running gDesklets for the first time.
gDesklets will start a requirements check now...

Checking requirements:
 - sys ... found
 - xml.parsers.expat ... found
 - xml.sax ... found
 - gtk ... found
 - ORBit ... found
Version check failed.

ORBit python bindings (pyorbit) version == 2.0.1 are required.

Please make sure that the required software is installed.
Also try to avoid having multiple versions of a library/binding on your system.
gDesklets won't work if you don't have all necessary dependencies installed
on your system.

THE STARTUP WILL BE CANCELLED NOW!"

As far as I know, nothing I have installed has changed the original pyorbit that
came with FC 5. How do I install this (sudo yum install pyorbit)?

Strange that ppc64 required pyorbit 2.0.1 where the spec file actually
mentionned >= 2.0.1 which worked fine on other architecture. Did you use the
ppc32 version to verify if the issue get solved? I will release an update to see
if the problem goes away.

I haven't done anything yet. I'll wait for the update.

Further details about gDesklets. I updated the package which will be available
sooner. I found a workaround that consists to start gDesklets from the terminal
once, exit and restart it from the menu. Hope if help. Sorry for the delay.

Gdesklets works fine on the system. Until the problem emerged once again, this
bug report is now closed.

Please don't close a bug as WORKSFORME when you released an update.
Use CLOSED/NEXTRELEASE or CLOSED/ERRATA

I've had a look at your CVS "fix" and don't understand it. In comment 3,
Brian report debug output about a failed version check. You've not done
anything about that version check. Instead, you've only replaced a minimum
version of a build requirement in the spec file.

The failure is still reproducible here:

$ rpm -q gdesklets
gdesklets-0.35.3-8.fc5
$ rm -rf $HOME/.gdesklets
$ gdesklets --debug

This bug affects i386 architecture as well.
I just installed gdesklets and I ran into the very same problem as Brian
reported ("ORBit python bindings (pyorbit) version == 2.0.1 are required."). The
output of "gdesklets --debug" is the same as in comment #3.

My system is fully updated as of Jun 5, 2006.

(In reply to comment #9)
> This bug affects i386 architecture as well.
> I just installed gdesklets and I ran into the very same problem as Brian
> reported ("ORBit python bindings (pyorbit) version == 2.0.1 are required."). The
> output of "gdesklets --debug" is the same as in comment #3.
> 
> My system is fully updated as of Jun 5, 2006.
> 

Current workaround posted from an user:

This works fine on FC5, maybe it'll help on other distros:

Open the file /usr/lib/gdesklets/gdesklets in a text editor (I used vi) and find
the two lines where the dependency is checked:

( ("ORBit",), lambda m : m.__version__ == (2, 0, 1),
_("ORBit python bindings (pyorbit) version == 2.0.1 are required.")


then edit the entries to read:

( ("ORBit",), lambda m : m.__version__ >= (2, 0, 1),
_("ORBit python bindings (pyorbit) version >= 2.0.1 are required.")

I will investigate further about this issue.

It has been a while I checked that bug report. I finally look around to find out
it is an upstream bug i.e. it is a problem related to gdesklets itself. While
the workaround is available online, I will prepare an updated version with a
patch. Sorry for the very long delay of response.

The package is now updated with added patch against pyorbit requirement found on
upstream package. Check out the package on Extras repository and let me know if
the problem occurs on PPC.