Griffith - media collection manager on OpenSuse 12.1

Nikos78 · November 22, 2011, 3:38pm

Hello community,

I am trying to install this package Griffith on OpenSuse 12.1 64bit.

I get an error, because the program needs sqlalchemy =<0.6.7, while I have installed 0.7.2. I found a patch on this site berlios mailing list that should make it work with higher versions of sqlalchemy, but I don’t know what to do with it.

Any ideas?

Nikos78 · November 22, 2011, 4:34pm

Ok, reading a bit further I guess I have to use the GNU patch utility (never done that before). However, I don’t know on what file to apply the patch.

martin_helm · November 22, 2011, 4:52pm

Am 22.11.2011 16:36, schrieb Nikos78:
>
> Ok, reading a bit further I guess I have to use the GNU patch utility
> (never done that before). However, I don’t know on what file to apply
> the patch.
>
>
The patch says if you open it griffith-0.12.1/lib/add.py

martin_helm · November 22, 2011, 5:01pm

Am 22.11.2011 16:52, schrieb Martin Helm:
> Am 22.11.2011 16:36, schrieb Nikos78:
>>
>> Ok, reading a bit further I guess I have to use the GNU patch utility
>> (never done that before). However, I don’t know on what file to apply
>> the patch.
>>
>>
> The patch says if you open it griffith-0.12.1/lib/add.py
>
I seem to get old now. The patch includes changes to several files
griffith-0.12.1/lib/add.py
griffith-0.12.1/lib/preferences.py
griffith-0.12.1/lib/sql.py

you know how to apply a patch?

Nikos78 · November 22, 2011, 5:30pm

Never done it before…(that is long for no)

Nikos78 · November 22, 2011, 5:34pm

Ok, I found the three files you listed…

Should I try

patch - i griffith-0.12.1-sqlalchemy-0.7.patch -o ./griffith-0.12.1/lib/add.py

etc. for each file?

martin_helm · November 22, 2011, 5:49pm

Am 22.11.2011 17:36, schrieb Nikos78:
>
> Ok, I found the three files you listed…
>
> Should I try
> Code:
> --------------------
> patch - i griffith-0.12.1-sqlalchemy-0.7.patch -o ./griffith-0.12.1/lib/add.py
> --------------------
>
>
> etc. for each file?
>
>
No, no, no.


patch -p0 <griffith-0.12.1-sqlalchemy-0.7.patch

I hope I did not understand wrong where in your file hirarchy you placed
the patch file, the patch itself contains the meta information which of
the files are to be changed.

Nikos78 · November 22, 2011, 7:42pm

First of all, thank you for your directions so far.
I am not at the 12.1 system right now. However, I have two more questions

I hope I did not understand wrong where in your file hirarchy you placed
the patch file, the patch itself contains the meta information which of
the files are to be changed.

The patch is right now one level higher than the directory where I extracted the source to. Are the paths in the patch relative or absolute?
As I understood it I will run the patch on the extracted tar.gz file and then rerun sudo make. Does this seem plausible to you?

PS: I run patch --help to see what -p0 means, but don’t really get it. As far as I understand it has nothing to do with the path of the files, true?

martin_helm · November 22, 2011, 7:51pm

Am 22.11.2011 19:46, schrieb Nikos78:
> The patch is right now one level higher than the directory where I
> extracted the source to. Are the paths in the patch relative or
> absolute?
> As I understood it I will run the patch on the extracted tar.gz file
> and then rerun sudo make. Does this seem plausible to you?
>
Then it should work as described, but you should rerun “make” after that
“sudo make install”.
Never run “sudo make” alone nly the “make install” step, a simple make
is never meant to be invoked with root rights.

Nikos78 · November 23, 2011, 8:15am

Thank you! It worked like a charm.