[confirmed][fixed] gDesklets is broken

[lagagnon]

The "gDesklets" package in the Mint repository is broken for Gloria. It requires Python 2.5 and Mint 7 has Python 2.6.2. It throws an error in this regard when launched from a terminal. I don't know who to message on this one so I though I'd post it on the forum...

Larry

[clhodapp]

On my Gloria x64 system, it claims to depend on 2.6 <= python < 2.7 and installs fine. Maybe it's been updated?

[emorrp1]

Ok, so the gdesklets package is broken, for the following reasons:
1) Although it correctly depends on python >=2.6 and < 2.7, the /usr/bin/gdesklets script uses a /usr/bin/python2.5 shebang, rather than /usr/bin/python
2) Once this line has been changed, the file /usr/lib/gdesklets/gdesklets-daemon cannot be found, hence failing to connect to the daemon

[clhodapp]

Ok, then that's why it worked: I just happened to have python2.5 installed. If you do, it installs and runs fine. Maybe we should change the dependency and put it in our repo?

[emorrp1]

ok, so this has been reported and fixed upstream: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/350562
Unfortunately, it's only been fixed in karmic (gdesklets - 0.36.1-2ubuntu1) so for the moment at least, you have to stick to the workaround:

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apt install python2.5