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thiagojolv / packettracer-fedora

Easily install Cisco Packet Tracer latest version on Fedora.
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Installation script | Multiple messages 'No such file or directory' #14

Closed Ricky-Tigg closed 1 year ago

Ricky-Tigg commented 1 year ago

Hello. sh install.sh run on Fedora, edition 37. Resulting output relevant for report.

gtk-update-icon-cache: No theme index file.
touch: cannot touch '/root/.config/mimeapps.list': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/xdg-mime: line 873: /root/.config/mimeapps.list.new: No such file or directory

Once the installation process has ended, packettracer triggers a successful opening of the application. Nonetheless, it cannot be determined whether the underlying causes of that output may affect the behaviour or any functionality of that application.

Note: running the script with sudo as instructed by Run sudo bash install.sh and (...) in code tab would lead as expected to installation errors caused by the misuse of sudo. So it is dully avoided at least on my system.

thiagojolv commented 1 year ago

Hi! :smile:

gtk-update-icon-cache: No theme index file.

Thats only a warn, it is nothing to be a cause for alarm. http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,109423.msg934934.html#msg934934

touch: cannot touch '/root/.config/mimeapps.list': No such file or directory /usr/bin/xdg-mime: line 873: /root/.config/mimeapps.list.new: No such file or directory

You are right, this error is caused by the incorrect use of sudo on the postinst script inside on the .deb package. The sudo xdg-mime (...) command should not have the sudo. I will try to solve it in the next commit.

Ricky-Tigg commented 1 year ago

An investigation at GTK-UPDATE-ICON-C(ACHE(1).'s option --ignore-theme-index,-t leads me to observe that once applied to uninstall.sh, message No theme index file is avoided; illustration:

$ sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -t --force /usr/share/icons/gnome
gtk-update-icon-cache: Cache file created successfully.
thiagojolv commented 1 year ago

In this case, postinst script on .deb package also needs to be updated. I used a regular expression for this and I will commit shortly.

Ricky-Tigg commented 1 year ago

Before investigating i had reported to upstream via

$ dpkg-deb -I Cisco_Packet_Tracer_*_Ubuntu_64bit_*.deb | grep '^ Maintainer'
 Maintainer: Packet Tracer Support <packettracersupport@external.cisco.com>

about the message caused by gtk-update-icon-cache found in control.tar.xz's postinst so that it has the opportunity to fix the code so that we don't have to. Now we know the fix, i shall inform upstream of that. May it be fixed in next release.

thiagojolv commented 1 year ago

Great job! Now let's hope that the upstream accepts the proposal.