Hmm, yes.

I'm quite surprised:-
1) No-one else has noticed this.
2) It has made it all the way into the Debian stable release, in this state.

Either most gnunet users compile their own software, and/or gnunet users
who install the Debian packaged version prefer the command-line.
:-)

For me it added and extra layer of puzzlement onto the already bewildering
topic of GNS!

I feel sure the situation will now be rectified ...

Regards,

Geeb



On 10 July 2015 at 20:32, Christian Grothoff <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 07/10/2015 05:07 PM, Geeb wrote:
> > I have got to the bottom of this problem and I think it is probably
> purely
> > the Debian packaging that is faulty.
> >
> > I'll document it on this mailing list in case anyone else finds it
> useful,
> > but I should probably let the Debian package maintainers know. It is
> > confusing for a new user who is following the documentation on GNS on the
> > gnunet web site.
> >
> > The plugin objects required to use the GTK GNS manipulation screen (e.g.
> > libgnunet_plugin_gtk_namestore_a.so etc) are only supplied in the Debian
> > gnunet-gtk-dev package, which isn't installed by default with gnunet-gtk.
>
> Oh, that's indeed a grave packaging fault.  -dev packages should ship
> headers and maybe developer-specific documentation, but *required*
> binary plugins for running the GUI certainly should be part of the main
> gnunet-gtk package.
>
> > What is more even if you do install the dev package you must then
> manually
> > create symbolic links in /usr/lib to point to these objects as they are
> not
> > picked up, because they reside in /usr/lib/gnunet.
>
> Outch. Ok, thanks for the diagnostic, I'm sure our dear Debian
> maintainer will resolve this soon ;-).
>
> > So if you install the dev package and add the sym-links, the GUI GNS
> screen
> > allows you to add new GNS records: It then works correctly.
> >
>
> :-)
>
> -Christian
>
>
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