Blink uses the following logic:
Takes the path of the binary and extract the directory component. If the
directory ends with /bin it strips /bin from it. It then takes this directory
as a base path and looks if either the resources/ directory or the share/blink
directory is present as a subdirectory and uses whichever is present.
With this the software can run both standalone in a directory (you just
download the software, put it in a directory and run it from there) or
installed system wide (for example in /usr or /usr/local) and even supports
multiple versions of blink installed in different system paths (like a stable
version in /usr and an experimental version in /usr/local) and they can run
independently without conflicting.
In the system wide installation case if the binary is in /usr/bin/blink then it
will look for the resources in /usr/share/blink
In your case I guess the binary script is either placed in
/usr/lib64/python-exec/python2.7/bin/blink and that path in in your $PATH or it
is placed at that location and /usr/bin/blink is a symlink to that location.
Possible solutions:
1. put resources in /usr/lib64/python-exec/python2.7/usr/share/blink
2. make /usr/bin/blink the real script not a symlink
3. make /usr/bin/blink a hard link to /usr/lib64/python-exec/python2.7/bin/blink
On 7 Jun 2017, at 22:37, José Ramón Muñoz Pekkarinen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Doing some experiments with gentoo ebuilds I got a working installing
> blink-3.0.3 ebuild.
> When I execute blink, an error looking for the uis in the wrong place shows
> up:
>
> $ blink
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python2.7/blink", line 67, in <module>
> from blink import Blink
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blink/__init__.py", line 31, in
> <module>
> from blink.chatwindow import ChatWindow
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blink/chatwindow.py", line 39, in
> <module>
> from blink.contacts import URIUtils
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blink/contacts.py", line 48, in
> <module>
> from blink.sessions import SessionManager, StreamDescription
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blink/sessions.py", line 48, in
> <module>
> from blink.screensharing import ScreensharingWindow, VNCClient,
> ServerDefault
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blink/screensharing/__init__.py",
> line 3, in <module>
> from blink.screensharing.vncviewer import ScreensharingWindow, VNCViewer
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/blink/screensharing/vncviewer.py",
> line 387, in <module>
> ui_class, base_class =
> uic.loadUiType(Resources.get('screensharing_dialog.ui'))
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/PyQt5/uic/__init__.py", line 198,
> in loadUiType
> winfo = compiler.UICompiler().compileUi(uifile, code_string,
> from_imports, resource_suffix, import_from)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/PyQt5/uic/Compiler/compiler.py",
> line 110, in compileUi
> w = self.parse(input_stream, resource_suffix)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/PyQt5/uic/uiparser.py", line 1002,
> in parse
> document = parse(filename)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1182, in parse
> tree.parse(source, parser)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 647, in parse
> source = open(source, "rb")
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
> u'/usr/lib64/python-exec/python2.7/share/blink/screensharing_dialog.ui'
>
> The uis are properly installed in /usr/share/blink:
>
> $ ls /usr/share/blink
> about_panel.ui blink.ui chat_widget.ui
> contact_group.ui icons otr_widget.ui
> screensharing_toolbox.ui tls
> add_account.ui chat chat_window.ui contact.ui
> incoming_calltransfer_dialog.ui pending_watcher.ui
> screensharing_window.ui video_widget.ui
> audio_session_drag.ui chat_input_lock.ui conference_dialog.ui
> filetransfer_item.ui incoming_dialog.ui preferences.ui
> server_tools.ui zrtp_widget.ui
> audio_session.ui chat_session.ui contact_editor.ui
> filetransfer_window.ui incoming_filetransfer_dialog.ui
> screensharing_dialog.ui sounds
>
> Is there any way to tell blink where to look for them? Or is this
> something I should modify on the ebuild to
> install uis in /usr/lib64/python-exec/python2.7/share/blink?
>
> Thanks!
>
> José
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