Hello all, thanks for the development work and making Gentoo great. I recently installed zim and and it starts ok but I'm having several problems with it. I tried several things but haven't found any fixes yet. What I see on my installation are these: 1) no /usr/share/zim directory is created, this contains the default.style file possibly others. 2) No plugins show in the preferences dialog. 3) Documentation refuses to show. i.e. Help > Content, Help > FAQ... show nothing. I don't know any more about 1 or 2 but the "zim --doc" gives me: Invalid dirname: '' at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Zim/Utils.pm line 71 So I updated the ebuild to add a couple missing perl modules, also zim has a new web address and download url which I also updated. I added two dependencies (Module:Build and Test::More) listed on http://zim-wiki.org/Install/Unix.html that were not in the ebuild. In the ebuild I used perl-core/Module-Build rather than virtual/perl-Module-Build and perl-core/Test-Simple rather than virtual/perl-Test-Simple (Test::Simple contains Test::More). I estimated the versions of perl-core/Module-Build (version 0.28.08) and perl-core/Test-Simple (version 0.84) corresponding to when zim was released. Note, I do use KDE but this shouldn't be an issue. Attached new ebuild in next thread. Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 178746 [details] zim-0.27.ebuild updated URL and added two dependencies
Oh, I forgot to add that the new ebuild didn't fix these problems.
Thanks for the report. To clarify a bit, did perl-core/Module-Build happen to be already installed on your system prior to adding it as a zim dependency? If so, that could explain why bug 253340 reported a build failure from the missing dependency, but you didn't run into that problem.
Thanks for looking at this Wormo. No, perl-core/Module-Build was not already installed on my system. However, I did not run into the problem that the guy of bug 253340 did.
Please attach ebuild diff(1) next time so I can see what you have changed. Should be fixed with, +*zim-0.28 (21 Jul 2009) + + 21 Jul 2009; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> +zim-0.28.ebuild, + +files/zim-0.28-disable-updates.patch: + Version bump. Please open a new bug if you still have issues.
