gpodder and ubuntu

[Brian]

On 12/13/2017 12:55 AM, Brian wrote:
> On 12/12/2017 01:13 PM, I wrote:
>> On 12/12/2017 12:38 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
>>> On 12 December 2017 at 17:42, Brian <b_lists at patandbrian.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Can somebody please translate this into what I need to do to get
>>>> gpodder running again, please, because it's over my head... :(
>>>
>>> That's odd. It's in the standard repos, it should just work.
>>>
>>> This seems good advice:
>>>
>>> http://installion.co.uk/ubuntu/xenial/universe/g/gpodder/uninstall/index.html
>>>
>>> Then reinstall with this:
>>>
>>> http://installion.co.uk/ubuntu/xenial/universe/g/gpodder/install/index.html
>>>
>>> What variant of Ubuntu are you running -- normal Unity or what?
>>>
>>
>> Ubuntu Studio, but with XFCE installed (same desktop as I was using
>> with Debian, when gPodder worked). I'll give the uninstall and
>> reinstall a try when I get chance, later today.
>>
> 
> 
> I gave it a try, going as far as the purge with the unused
> dependencies, and then reinstalled. No difference. Trying to run the
> program via the desktop icon has no effect, if I try from the terminal
> the output looks more or less the same (pasted below). There's a forum
> on gpodder's homepage, I'll paste this lot there as well and see
> whether anybody there has any ideas.
> 

Interesting. There's a ppa for gpodder

(https://launchpad.net/~thp/+archive/ubuntu/gpodder)

and adding that then a dist-upgrade (it's held back by an ordinary
upgrade) installs a new version of gpodder. It still gives a bunch of
error messages when run from a terminal, but now the program WORKS
after it's got all the verbiage out of the way. I don't pretend to
understand why, but if it fixes the problem, I'm happy...


Brian.