Plasmoid install fails

[Thomas Janssen]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Colin J Thomson <colin at g6avk.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tuesday 7 September 2010 17:52:31 Colin J Thomson wrote:
>> On Tuesday 7 September 2010 14:53:23 Rex Dieter wrote:
>> > On 09/05/2010 06:06 AM, Colin J Thomson wrote:
>
>> > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249980
>> > >
>> > > I have tried the "workaround" of manually unpacking and running
>> > > plasmapkg -i on the directory and that seems OK on a few random
>> > > plasmoids tested here.
>> > >
>> > > F13/4.5.1/qt-4.7.0-0.27.rc1
>> >
>> > Do you have a an specific example of a plasmoid exhibiting this?  (to
>> > rule out a dependency failure or buggy plasmoids...)
>>
>> I tested a couple, gmail-plasmoid and the Service Monitor, Using the "add
>> widgets" option, both download installation and local file installation
>> fail with no error reported.
>>
>> The downloaded file was in:
>>
>> /home/blah/.kde/tmp-localhost.localdomain/
>>
>> I'll do some more testing and try and get some more verbose output, maybe
>> start plasma from a shell will help.
>
> OK here is some output running plasma-desktop from a shell trying another
> Plasmoid:
>
> "KConfigIni: In file /tmp/kde-g6avk/plasmapkgqBc3Xp/metadata.desktop, line 1:
> " Invalid entry (missing ']')
> "KConfigIni: In file /tmp/kde-g6avk/plasmapkgqBc3Xp/metadata.desktop, line 2:
> " Invalid entry (missing '=')
> "KConfigIni: In file /tmp/kde-g6avk/plasmapkgqBc3Xp/metadata.desktop, line 3:
> " Invalid entry (missing '=')
> "KConfigIni: In file /tmp/kde-g6avk/plasmapkgqBc3Xp/metadata.desktop, line 4:
> " Invalid entry (missing '=')
> "KConfigIni: In file /tmp/kde-g6avk/plasmapkgMvd2Lq/metadata.desktop, line 1:
> " Invalid entry (missing ']')
> "KConfigIni: In file /tmp/kde-g6avk/plasmapkgMvd2Lq/metadata.desktop, line 2:
> " Invalid entry (missing '=')
> "KConfigIni: In file /tmp/kde-g6avk/plasmapkgMvd2Lq/metadata.desktop, line 3:
> " Invalid entry (missing '=')
> "KConfigIni: In file /tmp/kde-g6avk/plasmapkgMvd2Lq/metadata.desktop, line 4:
> " Invalid entry (missing '=')
> plasmapkg(2836)/libplasma Plasma::Package::installPackage:
> Package plugin name not specified
> Installation of /tmp/kde-g6avk///100348-plasma-applet-magic-
> folder_1.2.3.plasmoid failed.
> plasma-desktop(2529)/knewstuff (api): Command failed
>
>
> I doubt this will help much, so I tested with the same plasmoid  and manually
> unpacked it and ran "plasmapkg -i" against that folder:
>
> @localhost tmp]$ plasmapkg -i 100348-plasma-applet-magic-folder_1.2.3
> Successfully installed /home/g6avk/tmp/100348-plasma-applet-magic-folder_1.2.3
>
> As you see that works.

This looks like a upstream problem, not a packaging one. Probably KZip
breaking the content.

-- 
Best regards
Thomas