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["Matt T." <Matt@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 09 December 2007, Matt T. wrote:
> On Sunday 09 December 2007, Matt T. wrote:
> > Cannot get smart gui to run on OpenSuSE 10.3 x86_64
> > Currently kernel 2.6.22.13-0.3-default but this was like that since beta
> > 2
> >
> > # smart --gui
> > error: System has no support for gtk python interface
[SNIP] 
> > Google has no ideas, and I seem to be the only one having this problem
> > anyway ... still, I would appreciate any ideas to resolve this!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Matt
>
> Tried downgrading all smart again to 0.51-56, which runs fine on my 32 bit
> desktop, but it did not help too.
>
> # smart install smart-0.51-5

Found the solution here: 
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.php?act=Print&client=printer&f=3&t=62998

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Posted by: Tom Ronalds Nov 19 2007, 10:40 AM
OK, problem solved! -- Just in case this may assist someone in the future...

I tried several approaches, including one click install of Smart, as Geoff 
suggested earlier. No go. So eventually I remembered that sometimes on 64-bit 
systems, weird errors can come up which are not picked up as dependency 
issues, when a 32-bit package is installed where there should be a 64-bit 
one. 

Incidentally, this is one thing Smart tends to do when one is not paying 
attention - it will offer to upgrade a 64-bit package with the new one being 
32-bit.

So I ran the following command:

rpm -qa --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}.rpm\n' | grep i586

and amongst the results there was <python-gobject2-2.14.0-9.1.i586.rpm>

Bingo!

sudo rpm -e --nodeps python-gobject2
smart install python-gobject2

Installing packages (1):
 python-gobject2-2.14.0-9.1@x86_64 

smart --gui

Good as new! :-)

Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions. Persistence clearly pays off 
again!

Cheers,

Tom Ronalds
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Thanks, Tom, this was it, I have my SMART GUI back!

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