[Alexandria-list] [ANN] Alexandria 0.6.4b1 (BETA)

[Cathal Mc Ginley]

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On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 18:13:44 +0100
Miguel __ngel Garc__a <magmaxlistas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there.
> 
> I updated Spanish translation, 

Thanks. I didn't notify the translators before the beta release, but I
will before the 0.6.4 final release.

In the mean time, if anyone has suggestions for changes to the text of
the user interface, please send them in. I was writing in a very
technical mindset - not giving very much thought to user-friendliness...

> but I found a problem when I was going
> to probe it:
> 
> $ alexandria 
> ruby: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux/gtk2.so:
> undefined symbol: gtk_file_system_error_quark
> 
> 
> I think it is not a direct problem from alexandria, but maybe you can
> help me about the package I need. I use Debian SID with some packages
> from Experimental.
> 
> Thank you.
> 

It seems to be due to an interface incompatibility between your versions
of GTK+ and libgtk2-ruby --Simon Lipp explains it near the end of this
bug report: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11623

My summary: 
  * Your version of libgtk2-ruby is older than your version of GTK+.
  * If libgtk2-ruby was built against GTK+ 2.12 it will have included a
    reference the private symbol gtk_file_system_error_quark.
  * If you're now running GTK+ 2.14 (which removed the
    gtk_file_system_error_quark symbol) then libgtk2-ruby obviously
    won't find it.

The solution is probably just to make sure your copies of GTK+ and
libgtk2-ruby (and all the other ruby-gnome2 stuff) are from the same
package repository. If that doesn't work, drop me a line and I can try
to work through it over Jabber or some such.

The reason I never came across this is that I'm still running GTK+
2.12.12 - I'd upgrade to test the problem, but I think I'll do a
system backup first ;^)

   -   Cathal.
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