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Bug 1349603 - Avogadro is unusable in a fresh installed Fedora 24
Summary: Avogadro is unusable in a fresh installed Fedora 24
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: avogadro
Version: 24
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kevin Kofler
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-06-23 19:01 UTC by Henrique C. S. Junior
Modified: 2016-08-26 10:22 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: avogadro-1.1.1-18.1.fc24
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Last Closed: 2016-08-26 10:22:49 UTC
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2016-06-23 19:01 UTC, Henrique C. S. Junior 		no flags Details
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Description Henrique C. S. Junior 2016-06-23 19:01:42 UTC 
Description of problem: Avogadro is completely unusable in Fedora 24


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Avogadro 1.1.1 on F24


How reproducible:
Install and open Avogadro


Steps to Reproduce:
1. dnf install avogadro
2. Open Avogadro
3. See that it is openning, but almost all features are not installed.

Actual results:
Avogadro is powerful. It can perform geometric optimizations, generate inputs, crystal lattices etc. In Fedora 24 the distributed Avogadro comes missing almost all features and the "extras"" menu is empty.


Expected results:
Lots of features that are part of the package.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Henrique C. S. Junior 2016-07-02 14:48:34 UTC 
Hi, nothing new here?
Comment 2 Kevin Kofler 2016-07-03 01:55:12 UTC 
Basically, I took the Avogadro package only because its shared libraries are a dependency of Kalzium. As far as I know, Rex Dieter's occasional work on the package (as a provenpackager) was also aimed at that. If you think you can do a better job of maintaining the Avogadro package, I'll be glad to give it to you (also because I already stopped comaintaining Kalzium, I have kept Avogadro so far only because I am the primary maintainer, and in fact the only official one).

I have looked at the build.log right now and I do not see it complaining about any missing dependency, so I'm not sure where the problem comes from (maybe the upstream 1.1.1 release is broken? There is a 1.2.0 release on SourceForge now that someone should look into anyway).

Also, are you sure that the features you are missing are in upstream Avogadro (1.x) and not Avogadro2? Avogadro2 is a different branch that Kalzium is not compatible with, so it is not possible to replace Avogadro with Avogadro2 (at least not without a compatibility package for avogadro-libs), Avogadro2 would have to be submitted for review as a completely new package.
Comment 3 Henrique C. S. Junior 2016-07-03 05:55:34 UTC 
Hi, Kevin, unfortunately, I don't have the time to take any packages. I'm sure about the problems with Avogadro on Fedora, I'm a long time user. Avogadro 2 is a completely different software, maintained by another team, the development of 1.x and 2.x will go in parallel.
My compilations for Avogadro 1.2 is failing in Fedora 24, but I didn't have the time to contact the developers yet (it is on my to-do list).
Comment 4 Kevin Kofler 2016-07-03 12:55:52 UTC 
> I'm sure about the problems with Avogadro on Fedora, I'm a long time user.

And it worked well in Fedora 23? Or when was the last Fedora release you found it working well in? We really need to figure out when it started breaking and why, if we want this fixed.

And I'm afraid I'll probably have to orphan this package because I really don't have time for it, it looks like I'm doing a horrible job at maintaining it.
Comment 5 Henrique C. S. Junior 2016-07-03 20:33:20 UTC 
Yes, it was perfect on F23; today I'll try to recompile the F23 RPMs and I'll tell you the results.
Comment 6 Henrique C. S. Junior 2016-07-04 17:14:03 UTC 
Hi, Kevin, after a rebuild from avogadro-1.1.1-18.fc24.src and a fresh reinstall the package is working perfectly.
I have no explanation for the previous problems, but looks like a simple rebuild should do it for you.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2016-08-16 21:09:14 UTC 
avogadro-1.1.1-18.1.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-5d3f4c7ff1
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2016-08-18 01:52:12 UTC 
avogadro-1.1.1-18.1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-5d3f4c7ff1
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2016-08-26 10:22:48 UTC 
avogadro-1.1.1-18.1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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