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VampireSquirrrl

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-07-20

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[Solved] Internode Applet

G'day
Just installed Arch for the first time on the weekend - great OS!

I have pretty much everything working except for one gnome applet I use to monitor my ADSL usage: http://www.users.on.net/~spohlenz/internode/

The installer did not copy some files across (running as root), but after manually copying the required files, I can launch the applet via:  python /usr/bin/internode-applet.py --window
(this also tells you which files didn't make it, you also have to sudo mkdir /usr/share/internode & sudo mkdir /usr/share/internode/pixmaps)

But, when I drag and drop the icon from the 'add to panel' list onto the panel, I get the default Gnome error:  "The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:InternodeUsageMeterApplet"."

There are no sign of errors running it in the terminal - it runs perfectly launched from there.  I know the applet works because I was using it in Ubuntu last week before switching to Arch.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Last edited by VampireSquirrrl (2010-08-16 01:45:24)

fukawi2

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Re: [Solved] Internode Applet

I don't have a solution, but thanks for the link

I'll try it when I get home and let you know if it works for me or not

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VampireSquirrrl

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-07-20

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Re: [Solved] Internode Applet

I don't have a solution, but thanks for the link

I'll try it when I get home and let you know if it works for me or not

Thanks

Btw you don't need to be with Internode to get it to run.

VampireSquirrrl

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-07-20

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Re: [Solved] Internode Applet

It works now!!  For some reason it ended up in the wrong location:

This fixes it:  sudo mv /usr/bin/internode-applet.py /usr/local/bin

So, to get it to work from scratch:

Make sure all depencies are installed (listed in the INSTALL file).

in the directory that you extracted the files to:
sudo mkdir /usr/share/internode
sudo mkdir /usr/share/internode/pixmaps
sudo python setup.py install
sudo cp * /usr/share/internode
sudo cp pixmaps/* /usr/share/internode/pixmaps
sudo mv /usr/bin/internode-applet.py /usr/local/bin

yay

Last edited by VampireSquirrrl (2010-07-20 09:06:58)

fukawi2

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Re: [Solved] Internode Applet

Btw you don't need to be with Internode to get it to run.

No, but I need my Arch desktop

I'm trying to package this so it can me installed and managed by pacman to avoid hackery like you've had to do, but it seems like the author hasn't been very flexible with the setup.py file (I hate Python). Here's what I've got so far:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=795087

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VampireSquirrrl

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From: Brisbane, Australia

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Re: [Solved] Internode Applet

Btw you don't need to be with Internode to get it to run.

No, but I need my Arch desktop

I'm trying to package this so it can me installed and managed by pacman to avoid hackery like you've had to do, but it seems like the author hasn't been very flexible with the setup.py file (I hate Python). Here's what I've got so far:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=795087

I'm guessing you have gnome-vfs installed? that would be another dependency, not sure if it comes with gnome by default or not...