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jackwild

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Registered: 2014-01-15

Posts: 30

p7zip gui broken with wxgtk 3.0

The upgrade of wxgtk from 2.8 -> 3.0 has broken the gui of the p7zip package as accessed from a file manager (dolphin), with no message. Executing p7zipForFilemanager from a terminal gives:

/usr/lib/p7zip/7zG: error while loading shared libraries: libwx_gtk2u_core-2.8.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

looking in /usr/lib showed that the libwx_gtk2... package had been upgraded to 3.0. Downgrading the package to 2.8 fixes the problem. Another fix is to install the 2.8 package from the aur
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wxgtk2.8-light/

My question is if any one knows a reason why having both of these packages is a bad idea, 2.8 and 3.0?

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,727

Re: p7zip gui broken with wxgtk 3.0

pacman -Qi p7zip, check the optional deps.

jackwild

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Registered: 2014-01-15

Posts: 30

Re: p7zip gui broken with wxgtk 3.0

I didn't notice that and I thought I looked. Thanks. Should this still be an optional dependency though, considering that it breaks without it?

the_shiver

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Registered: 2013-03-27

Posts: 130

Re: p7zip gui broken with wxgtk 3.0

given the package description "Command-line version of the 7zip compressed file archiver" i'd argue the gui as a whole is the optional part

alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: p7zip gui broken with wxgtk 3.0

I have it installed and didn't even realize it had graphical capability!

Maybe it could be split into two packages, but you'd have to talk with the maintainer about that.

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