Re: Zenmap path problem

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:20:54PM -0700, David Fifield wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 04:37:39PM -0600, Chris Clements wrote:
> > I have ndiff and some radialnet files in these directories, but no  
> > reference to zenmap:
> >
> > /usr/local/local/bin/ndiff
> > /usr/local/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/radialnet/
> >
> > It appears the files are going in the right place (/usr/local/share/ 
> > zenmap).  If I manually delete them, then re-run the install, they are  
> > recreated in that location.  The problem seems to be isolated to the  
> > incorrect lines being entered (or not entered as the case might be) into 
> > the definitions in the file "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist- 
> > packages/zenmapCore/Paths.py".
>
> I can reproduce this now with Ubuntu 9.10. Straight off the install CD
> it had python2.6_2.6.4-rc2-0ubuntu1, which had the /usr/local/local
> problem. After upgrading python 2.6 to python2.6_2.6.4-0ubuntu3, it
> installs in /usr/local but Paths.py has things under /usr.
>
> I'll let you know if I find out more.

Here's the revision I think is responsible:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-branches/ubuntu/karmic/python2.6/karmic-proposed/revision/38/debian/patches/distutils-install-layout.dpatch

I filed an Ubuntu bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python2.6/+bug/510211

For now, a workaround is to manually add in the "local" to these lines
in /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/zenmapCore/Paths.py:

# 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'

David Fifield
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