[Mageia-dev] Trying to install Google Musicmanager under Cauldron

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 14/01/13 22:07 did gyre and gimble:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Olivier Blin <mageia at blino.org> wrote:
>> Donald Stewart <watersnowrock at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 14 January 2013 20:27, Robert Fox <list at foxconsult.net> wrote:
>>>> A requested package cannot be installed:
>>>> google-musicmanager-beta-1.0.54.4672-0.x86_64 (due to unsatisfied
>>>> qtwebkit)
>>>> Continue installation anyway?
>>>>
>>>> [root at ThinkFox Downloads]# rpm -qa | grep qtwebkit
>>>> libqtwebkit2.2_4-2.2.2-5.mga3
>>>> qtwebkit-qmlplugin-2.2.2-5.mga3
>>>> lib64qtwebkit2.2_4-2.2.2-5.mga3
>>>
>>> I just forced the install without the deps...
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> If it works fine after installing with --nodeps, maybe we could add
>> "qtwebkit" provides in the matching package.
>> Do you know if this application is linked against libQtWebKit.so.4?
> 
> It seems to work fine on opensuse ignoring the dependency
> http://opensuseadventures.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/easily-install-dropbox-skype-and-google.html
> Trying here the %post complains about missing service atd but then runs fine
> 
> [pterjan at chopin ~]$ ldd /opt/google/musicmanager/MusicManager | grep -i qt
> 	libQtGui.so.4 => /lib64/libQtGui.so.4 (0x00007f19bcb74000)
> 	libQtNetwork.so.4 => /lib64/libQtNetwork.so.4 (0x00007f19bc83c000)
> 	libQtCore.so.4 => /lib64/libQtCore.so.4 (0x00007f19bc365000)
> 	libQtWebKit.so.4 => /lib64/libQtWebKit.so.4 (0x00007f19ba765000)
> 	libQtLocation.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libQtLocation.so.1 (0x00007f19b3d73000)
> 	libQtSensors.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libQtSensors.so.1 (0x00007f19b3b46000)
> 	libQtOpenGL.so.4 => /usr/lib64/libQtOpenGL.so.4 (0x00007f19b3848000)
> 	libQtSql.so.4 => /usr/lib64/libQtSql.so.4 (0x00007f19b1cf0000)
> 


Yeah the %post scripts in these google rpms to add custom urpmi packages
seems a bit rubbish (they do it via an at/cron job from what I gather).

At least they are doing urpmi stuff tho' - just not sure I approve of it
silently and automatically adding a software repository on my computer...

Same for the google talk plugin.

Col


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