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jeff story

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How to add a patch ? [SOLVED]

I'm trying to add a patch for a broken gdesklets.

I filed a bug report, and was asked to "apply the attached patch to /usr/lib/gdesklets and try running it again"

I've never applied a patch, and there is no /usr/lib/gdesklets file, but it's a directory.

See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gdesklets/+bug/403774

I want to try the patch, but really don't know how to procede.

Last edited by jeff story (2009-07-24 05:19:06)

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sHyLoCk

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Re: How to add a patch ? [SOLVED]

I'm trying to add a patch for a broken gdesklets.

I filed a bug report, and was asked to "apply the attached patch to /usr/lib/gdesklets and try running it again"

I've never applied a patch, and there is no /usr/lib/gdesklets file, but it's a directory.

See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gdesklets/+bug/403774

I want to try the patch, but really don't know how to procede.

patch < /path/to/file

For more info.

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jeff story

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Re: How to add a patch ? [SOLVED]

Thank you.

I didn't realize that "patch" was an application to run in a shell.

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