Bug 106035 – hplip: toolbox (HP Device Manager) does not run without qt USE flag

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Tom Hendrikx 2005-09-15 00:17:37 UTC]

I have installed hplip with USE flags +X -qt (among others). There is a 'HP
device Manager provided in my (gnome) menu, but it doesn't run. From
commandline, it tells me:

tomhendr@elaine ~ $ /usr/share/hplip/toolbox
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/hplip/toolbox", line 41, in ?
    import base.async_qt as async
  File "/usr/share/hplip/base/async_qt.py", line 85, in ?
    from qt import *
ImportError: No module named qt

The error is pretty straightforward, but if this application only works with qt,
then why is it installed. Problem exists with latest ebuild (0.9.4).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. USE="X -qt" emerge hplip
2. run /usr/share/hplip/toolbox from commandline




emerge --info
Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r1,
2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict
userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.whyscream.net/
ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow X aac acpi alsa avi berkdb bmp cdr crypt cups dbus divx4linux dri
dvd elibc_glibc encode esd exif fam flac foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gphoto2
gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl imlib ipv6 jpeg kernel_linux libwww mad matroska
matrox mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ogg oggvorbis opengl
pam pdflib png python quicktime readline samba sdl spell sse ssl svg tcpd theora
tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userland_GNU vorbis
win32codecs xine xml2 xv zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[Comment 1 Luis Medinas (RETIRED) 2005-09-16 13:41:41 UTC]

can you please emerge pykde and see if it runs ?

[Comment 2 Tom Hendrikx 2005-09-18 07:30:12 UTC]

emerge -av pykde gives:

[blocks B     ] >=kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.1 (is blocking dev-python/pykde-3.11.3)
[ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r3  +cups -debug -doc -examples -firebird +gif
-immqt -immqt-bc +ipv6 -mysql -nas -odbc +opengl -postgres -sqlite -xinerama
+zlib 0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-python/sip-4.1.1  -debug -doc 289 kB
[ebuild  N    ] kde-base/kde-env-3-r4  0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.4.1-r1  +alsa -arts +cups -debug -doc -jpeg2k
-kdeenablefinal -kerberos -openexr +spell +ssl +tiff -xinerama -zeroconf 0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-python/qscintilla-1.61  -doc 684 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-python/PyQt-3.13  -debug -doc 745 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-python/pykde-3.11.3  -debug -doc -kjs 1,225 kB

which seems to be a rather strange error in the pykde ebuild. I'm going to
emerge with ">=kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.1" in my package.mask.

Note however, that I do not think it is advisable to make half of kde a
dependency of hplip. It should rather not install the device manager at all...

[Comment 3 Tom Hendrikx 2005-09-18 11:24:49 UTC]

It runs fine after 4 hours of kde compilation, but I did not expect anything else ;)

[Comment 4 Luis Medinas (RETIRED) 2005-09-25 09:59:43 UTC]

yes that's true but you need qt use flag to be able to access that environment.
So i will not remove the qt use flag because it's only optional.

[Comment 5 Tom Hendrikx 2005-09-26 01:08:56 UTC]

I never meant to remove the qt use flag. The problem is that, when you do *not*
have/want the qt USE flag enabled, there is a program in your menu that is
actually broken (because of qt not available). I think you should not provide
rpograms to end-users that do not run, especialy when this is expected behaviour
(because the qt flag is not set, and qt is not available).

Since you do not want qt as a dependency, there is only one solution to the
problem: do not provide/install the program that depends on qt. 

[Comment 6 Chris White (RETIRED) 2005-11-20 14:04:03 UTC]

CANTFIX? noooooo wrong answer:  
  
+       if ! use qt ; then  
+               rm -f ${D}/usr/bin/hp-print  
+               rm -f ${D}/usr/bin/hp-toolbox  
+               rm -f ${D}/usr/share/hplip/print  
+               rm -f ${D}/usr/share/hplip/toolbox  
+       fi  
+  
  
hm.. that looks familiar...:  
  
    else 
        rm -f ${D}/usr/lib/libsane-hpaio.la 
        rm -f ${D}/usr/lib/libsane-hpaio.so 
        rm -f ${D}/usr/lib/libsane-hpaio.so.1 
        rm -f ${D}/usr/lib/libsane-hpaio.so.1.0.0 
    fi 
 
oh look.. it's the same logic :/.  Tested myself and it successfully does not 
install the files, and portage takes care of the symlinks that don't exist 
anymore. 

[Comment 7 Marcelo Goes (RETIRED) 2006-01-14 11:12:58 UTC]

Thanks Chris, fix in cvs.