Xara XL won't open after install

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I just installed Xara XL, got it from openSuse Webpin. It said that it was installed successfully, but when I try to open it nothing happens. What is missing?

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I’ve had problems like that (today only, with latest KDE4) with numerous apps.

If you’re running from KDE4, logout, login to KDE3 and try again. [Also,
try a newer ref/dup, as KDE4 updates are very active today.]

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I’m running KDE 3.5.9 and it still doesn’t open. What would cause this?

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Looks like the ‘webpin’ builder of Xara got sloppy. I installed it,
and I can see the problem. [If you run it from the cmd line (‘xara’),
you can see the issue…a missing symbol in a support-library.]

That’ll be my LAST time ever using webpin :mad:…their webpage doesn’t give
any means of reporting a problem, which is unforgiveable, in my opinion.
Clearly, it didn’t get tested before submission to their repository.

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Thanks for the tip. I just uninstalled it with zypper.

Too bad the webpin site can’t be trusted. Is there another place to install Xara? I guess we can install from their website?

Otherwise I’ll have to learn Xara on my sidux Linux hard drive.

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On 2008-07-19, cookdav <cookdav@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> Looks like the ‘webpin’ builder of Xara got sloppy. I installed it,
> and I can see the problem. [If you run it from the cmd line (‘xara’),
> you can see the issue…a missing symbol in a support-library.]
>
> That’ll be my LAST time ever using webpin :mad:…their webpage doesn’t
> give
> any means of reporting a problem, which is unforgiveable, in my
> opinion.
> Clearly, it didn’t get tested before submission to their repository.

Erm, no telling where you got the idea that webpin is a repository, but
it isn’t. Webpin is a web-based tool used to search for packages in
repositories. In fact, the results give you a link straight to the repo
in addition to the 1-click install button.

In this case, XaraLX comes from the Education repo. They also happen to
have their own website/bugtracker/forums, since Education is an add-on
project based on openSUSE. Try going to http://opensuse-education.org
to report this bug.

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I just downloaded the tar file from the Xara site:
Open Source Xara Xtreme - Download and it installed just fine. Just have to change the properties to executable and then its ready to install. :slight_smile:

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