Re: zenmap launch error

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 02:56:42AM +0300, sara fink wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. yes, it was installed in /usr/local/bin.  I deleted
> zenmapGUI and zenmapCore and now it launches fine.
>
> What bothers me, is that it shouldn't be there in my opinion. Maybe I am
> wrong. In which directory you installed the new version?

It installs wherever you tell it to install using the --prefix option to
configure. By default that's in /usr/local. If you had a previous
version installed in /usr and you install a new version in /usr/local,
then you will have two copies of the Zenmap libraries installed.
Unfortunately Python will prefer the old libraries in /usr, which would
be incompatible with the new executable in /usr/local.

I admit it can be confusing. The easy solution is to have only one copy
of the program installed at a time. You can uninstall a copy of Zenmap
from /usr with the command "/usr/bin/uninstall_zenmap". If you have more
than one copy of Zenmap installed you will probably have to set the
PYTHONPATH environment variable or something similar to ensure that the
correct libraries are loaded.

> Also, I extracted the new version in /usr/portage/distfiles wwhich shouldn't
> be there. Only the bz2 should appear there.

I don't understand. /usr/portage/distfiles shouldn't be there? The
extracted package shouldn't be in /usr/portage/distfiles?

David Fifield

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