[yocto] Fails to launch the hob

[Barros Pena, Belen]

We have updated the Hob Manual to include the required packages and
screenshots of the 1.3 Hob

https://www.yoctoproject.org/documentation/hob-manual

Belen

On 03/01/2013 23:11, "Zhang, Jessica" <jessica.zhang at intel.com> wrote:

>Hi Belen,
>
>I'll modify the error message per suggestion.  By looking at the existing
>code, seems we only check for GTK+ and PyGtk version, so probably I'll
>drop PyGobject in the error message.  So you probably can update the hob
>info on the web-site accordingly.
>
>Thanks,
>Jessica
>
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>[mailto:yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Barros Pena, Belen
>Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 8:48 AM
>To: Biao; Mihai Lindner
>Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org
>Subject: Re: [yocto] Fails to launch the hob
>
>Any chance we could change the content of the error message to provide
>better indication of what the problem is? The idea would be adding
>version numbers and printing only what's causing trouble.
>
>So, from:
>
>$ hob
>FATAL: Gtk+, PyGtk and PyGobject are required to use Hob, You have Gtk+
>2.20.1 and PyGtk 2.17.0.
>
>To something like:
>
>$ hob
>FATAL: Hob requires Gtk+ 2.20.0 or higher, PyGtk 2.21.0 or higher and
>PyGobject [insert minimum version here] or higher You have PyGtk 2.17.0.
>
>Would this be possible?
>
>We should probably also add a paragraph listing essential packages to the
>Hob manual page on the website
>(https://www.yoctoproject.org/documentation/hob-manual). If someone tells
>me what's the minimum version of PyGobject required I could probably edit
>the page myself.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Belen
>
>
>
>From: Biao <huanmateme at 163.com<mailto:huanmateme at 163.com>>
>Date: Tuesday, 25 December 2012 06:16
>To: Mihai Lindner 
><mihaix.lindner at linux.intel.com<mailto:mihaix.lindner at linux.intel.com>>
>Cc: "yocto at yoctoproject.org<mailto:yocto at yoctoproject.org>"
><yocto at yoctoproject.org<mailto:yocto at yoctoproject.org>>
>Subject: Re: [yocto] Fails to launch the hob
>
>
>At 2012-12-24 20:37:26,"Mihai Lindner"
><mihaix.lindner at linux.intel.com<mailto:mihaix.lindner at linux.intel.com>>
>wrote:
>>On Mon, 2012-12-24 at 14:23 +0200, Mihai Lindner wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2012-12-24 at 15:37 +0800, Biao wrote:
>>> > Hi all,
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I can not launch hob on my ubun-10.04, it seems saying "no
>>>PyGobject" whereas python-object has already been installed. Can anyone
>>>kindly give a help?
>>> >
>>Oh, forgot to mention here, that you should probably be using Denzil,
>>instead of Danny or 'master'.
>
>Thanks for the kindly reminder.
>>> >
>>> > $ hob
>>> > FATAL: Gtk+, PyGtk and PyGobject are required to use Hob, You have
>>> > Gtk+ 2.20.1 and PyGtk 2.17.0.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > $ sudo apt-get install python-gobject Reading package lists... Done
>>> > Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done
>>> > python-gobject is already the newest version.
>>> >
>>> Python-gobject seems fine, Gtk seems fine (you have 2.20.1, Hob wants
>>> higher than 2.20.0), which leaves python-gtk2 version 2.17.0 on your
>>> system. Hob wants a version higher than 2.21.0.
>
>Thanks for this information, it seems the prompt message on the
>environment checking is not so clear.  Where are the hob users supposed
>to get such kind of information from?
>
>I did not found this information from the hob manual.
>
>>>
>>> --Mihai
>>> >
>>> > $ uname -a
>>> > Linux zb-d 2.6.32-33-generic #72-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 29 21:07:13 UTC
>>> > 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Biao
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