Re: Bitpim on Debian Etch/stable, also Motorola e815

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:40:12PM -0400, A. F. Cano wrote:
| 
| Hello,
| 
| Following the recommendations in the documentation, I tried to install the
| packages at the bitpim web site on my Debian Etch (stable) system, which is
| totally up to date.
| 
| bitpim_1.0.5_i386.deb would not install via dpkg because of massive
|                       dependency failures.  There is no backport of bitpim
| 		      at backports.org.
| 
| bitpim-1.0.5.tbz2, after being extracted in / caused the follwing error
|                    when run:
| 
| Traceback (most recent call last):
|   File "/opt/cx_Freeze-3.0.3/initscripts/ConsoleSetLibPath.py", line 35, in <module>
|   File "src/bp.py", line 20, in <module>
|   File "src/bp_cli.py", line 21, in <module>
|   File "src/bp_config.py", line 19, in <module>
|   File "src/guihelper.py", line 23, in <module>
|   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/__init__.py", line 45, in <module>
|   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py", line 4, in <module>
|   File "ExtensionLoader_wx__core_.py", line 12, in <module>
| ImportError: libtiff.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I recall seeing this a while back.
 
| It is true that libtiff.so.3 doesn't exist on this system.  There is
| /usr/lib/libtiff.so.4 and /usr/lib/libtiff.so.  So more dependency problems,
| furthermore /opt is empty on this system.

libtiff3 is old and a package is no longer available.  Your problem is
that build of bitpim depends on it.  Fortunately, at least in my
experience, libtiff3 and libtiff4 are link compatible (or at least
close enough not to crash).  I worked around it by creating a symlink:
    # ln -s /usr/lib/libtiff.so.4 /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3

The bitpim (1.0.3.dfsg.1-1) and wxPython packages on Debian testing
don't have this issue.

-Derrick

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