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Bug 707724 - check dependencies
check dependencies
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-maps
Classification: Applications
Component: general
git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-maps-maint
gnome-maps-maint
: 722146 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 722338
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-09-08 14:57 UTC by Adam Dingle
Modified: 2014-01-24 13:27 UTC
See Also:
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Description Adam Dingle 2013-09-08 14:57:28 UTC 
I just downloaded, configured and built gnome-maps.  I then tried to run, but got a series of JavaScript typelib errors.  The problem was that I hadn't installed various dependencies required by gnome-maps: libchamplain, libgeocode-glib, a new enough version of GTK and so on. 

gnome-maps should check for new enough versions of these dependencies and print a sensible error message if they don't exist.  That could happen either at configure time or on startup, but it should happen somewhere.
Comment 1 Zeeshan Ali 2013-09-08 15:42:14 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> I just downloaded, configured and built gnome-maps.  I then tried to run, but
> got a series of JavaScript typelib errors.  The problem was that I hadn't
> installed various dependencies required by gnome-maps: libchamplain,
> libgeocode-glib, a new enough version of GTK and so on. 
> 
> gnome-maps should check for new enough versions of these dependencies and print
> a sensible error message if they don't exist.  That could happen either at
> configure time

That would be wrong, check bug#706849 for why so.

> or on startup, but it should happen somewhere.

Yeah, that does make sense. As you can see in last comment (#5) on bug#706849, I'm not against adding runtime checks at all but somebody gotta do it. :)
Comment 2 Zeeshan Ali 2014-01-14 00:53:10 UTC 
*** Bug 722146 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Zeeshan Ali 2014-01-24 13:27:16 UTC 
As part of solution for bug#722338, this is now resolved.