problem installing purple-hangouts, need to use spectool???

**gingerale** · 03-Aug-2018, 01:17

Hi I am new to OpenSuse, coming from Ubuntu-Gnome, so when setting up I wanted to install Purple Hangouts for my Pidgin https://bitbucket.org/EionRobb/purple-hangouts/
The command I couldnt run was

Code:

spectool --all --get-files ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/purple-hangouts.spec --directory ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/

Is spectool some kind of RedHat command and what would be it's OpenSuse equivalant command to do the same?

**Knurpht** · 03-Aug-2018, 05:42

Welcome,

The instructions given seem to be more RH specific. You could login on build.opensuse.org and create your own subproject to build this plugin.

**Knurpht** · 03-Aug-2018, 05:45

Found it: spectool is in the rpmdevtools package. Install it and let know if that helps you getting where you want.

**gingerale** · 03-Aug-2018, 08:22

Originally Posted by Knurpht

Found it: spectool is in the rpmdevtools package. Install it and let know if that helps you getting where you want.

really? it doesnt seem to be?

Code:

gingerale@linux-4jlh:~> zypper search rpmdevtools
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S  | Name        | Summary               | Type   
---+-------------+-----------------------+--------
i+ | rpmdevtools | RPM Development Tools | package
gingerale@linux-4jlh:~> sudo zypper install rpmdevtools
[sudo] password for root: 
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
'rpmdevtools' is already installed.
No update candidate for 'rpmdevtools-8.10-lp150.1.3.noarch'. The highest available version is already installed.
Resolving package dependencies...

Nothing to do.
gingerale@linux-4jlh:~> spectool
If 'spectool' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this:
    cnf spectool
gingerale@linux-4jlh:~> spectool --all --get-files ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/purple-hangouts.spec --directory ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/
If 'spectool' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this:
    cnf spectool
gingerale@linux-4jlh:~> cnf spectool
spectool: command not found
gingerale@linux-4jlh:~>

**tsu2** · 03-Aug-2018, 08:41

Looks like a project exists, but is neglected.
2 years of pull requests (fixes submitted) without resolution.

https://github.com/openSUSE/obs-build

So,
<Maybe> if someone wanted to take over the project, there's a queue of fixes that might make it work...

In the meantime,
You might try a Fedora package to see if it might work. Prospects of an already compiled binary working is probably good since this kind of utility doesn't likely have any dependencies (guessing).

TSU

**Knurpht** · 03-Aug-2018, 10:06

You need to use
rpmdev-spectool

**gingerale** · 03-Aug-2018, 16:15

Originally Posted by Knurpht

You need to use
rpmdev-spectool

yes amazing! managed to make the commands go through without error!
i tried to restart but cant see result yet... is there any way to mount my home partition from login screen? whenever i login my screen goes black and i go back to login screen