Gpe Filemanager Doesn't Work

[GenericAnimeBoy]

Since I'm a softie windows user who wants to do most computing by point-and-click, I tried gpe-filemanager.  After all of my many attempts to install and reinstall, clicking on the GPE icon does nothing, and running it from the terminal returns:

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gpe-filemanager: error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file
AFAIK (I looked) this is not a seperately packaged lib.  Any ideas how to get this working, or do I wait until 3.5.4?

This is from a clean flash, btw.

[adf]

Since I'm a softie windows user who wants to do most computing by point-and-click, I tried gpe-filemanager.  After all of my many attempts to install and reinstall, clicking on the GPE icon does nothing, and running it from the terminal returns:

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gpe-filemanager: error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file
AFAIK (I looked) this is not a seperately packaged lib.  Any ideas how to get this working, or do I wait until 3.5.4?

This is from a clean flash, btw.
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This is funny.  I said this exact thing was gonna happen last week.
Your problem is that the line
 src gnome [a href=\"http://openzaurs.org/official/unstable/3.5.2/feed/gnome]http://openzaurs.org/official/unstable/3.5.2/feed/gnome[/url] is not in your /etc/ipkg.conf file. the package you need is in feed/gnome which for somereason doesn't come configured with the gpe package management stuff.

add the line. do ipkg update.
try again, you should be fine

[lardman]

To add it, you ought to copy one of the existing .conf files in /etc/ipkg/ and rename it gnome.conf, then edit it and change the url (and very important) the name (in front of the url).

Cleaner than adding the feed to /etc/ipkg.conf directly.


Si

[GenericAnimeBoy]

I'm using local feeds, actually, and I do have the gnome feed.  The lib apparently wasn't provided in any of the depends for gpe-packagemanager or any of its depends either.  I'm using the 3.5.3 ROM and 3.5.3 feeds, if that sheds any light on things.

[GenericAnimeBoy]

Had a think about it and I think I figured it out--my problem is a quirk with using local feeds.

The trouble is that there is an issue with ipkg, where if you ipkg update and you don't have a feed that lists the original system packages (ie. all of the ones that come with the ROM), ipkg thinks that those packages are not installed at all (and complains about missing the dependencies for absolutely everything).

Thus, I am using the Packages files straight from the feeds (so that ipkg has feeds to look at which contain all of the system packages), but have only actually downloaded the .ipks that I need, so there are a lot of packages listed in the Packages files i'm using which aren't actually contained in my local feed.  If I forgot to download one of the dependencies, ipkg tries to get it from my local feed, thinking it is there because it is listed in the Packages file, and then quits immediately when it fails to copy the package.  

Ipkg does not (probably by design) check whether the files it needs are actually there when doing dependency checks, and if it tries to copy a package from your feed that isn't actually there (but it is listed in the Packages file), it just quits, without even attempting to install further packages.

If only there were a better way to do this offline...

I need a network card for my Z...  

EDIT: I checked the logs.  Suspicion confirmed.  I was actually not missing any depends after having retrieved the one it asked for last time (which I later got and installed manually)--all the depends listed after that one didn't get installed because of ipkg quitting.  File manager works.  Huzzah.  File this one under "you really, really, really, really SHOULD buy that wifi card.

[adf]

I tried local with 3.5.3 for about 10 minutes....  didn't bother to sort out the weirdness, just went online.  It hadn't occurred to me you were doing local feeds.  maybe there ought to be a simple gui feed configuror rather than the the current setup.

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feed/x11/gconf-dbus_0.0cvs20050403-r5_arm.ipk provide libgconf-2.so.4