Zenmap path problem

[Chris Clements <cclements () flatearth net>]

It seems when I build nmap from svn on ubuntu9.10, zenmap installs  
correctly, but when I try to launch from command line or from gnome  
menu, I get a failure:

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Error creating the per-user configuration directory

There was an error creating the directory u'/root/.zenmap' or one of  
the files in it. The directory is created by copying the contents of '/ 
usr/share/zenmap/config'. The specific error was

"[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/zenmap/config'"

Zenmap needs to create this directory to store information such as the  
list of scan profiles. Check for access to the directory and try again.
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Looking at /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/zenmapCore/Paths.py,  
it seems that the config paths are being set incorrectly (should be / 
usr/local/share/zenmap/):

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# These lines are overwritten by the installer to hard-code the  
installed
# locations.
CONFIG_DIR = '/usr/share/zenmap/config'
LOCALE_DIR = '/usr/share/zenmap/locale'
MISC_DIR = '/usr/share/zenmap/misc'
PIXMAPS_DIR = '/usr/share/zenmap/pixmaps'
DOCS_DIR = '/usr/share/zenmap/docs'
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The "make install" process seems to be correctly passing the /usr/ 
local directory to setup.py:

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cd zenmap && /usr/bin/python setup.py --quiet install --prefix "/usr/ 
local" --force
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Running "python setup.py install --prefix "/usr/local" --force" by  
hand completes without any recognizable error.


Of course, manually changing /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ 
zenmapCore/Paths.py to the correct zenmap paths (/usr/local/share/ 
zenmap) causes zenmap to work as expected, but I'm wondering why this  
isn't being set by the installer. Anyone have any ideas?


Chris Clements
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