Re: zenmap launch error

["sara fink" <sara.fink () gmail com>]

See my reply in the text.



> 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.


Yes.

> 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.


It is confusing.  Usually in gentoo  in /usr/local  various ebuilds enter
there. I have only few specific programs there.  Most of the programs appear
in /usr

> > 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?


In /usr/portage/distfiles  only the  tar.gz files appear there.  When you
use emerge package the package is installed in /usr /var /opt all the
directories where it should appear. For nmap I put the .gz file in distfiles
and extracted compiled there. So I ended up with nmap-4.75 in
/usr/portage/distfiles/nmap-4.75.

Will install now 4.76 and see how it goes.

> David Fifield
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