Question

I have created a dead simple gtk python app (just a pycairo animation) for gnome.

I am trying to make an rpm so that it is easy for others to install it. I was hoping to make my app appear in the gnome application menu. I am running into trouble when I try to install it on Fedora 13 (my own box).

I follow the instructions here:
http://docs.python.org/distutils/builtdist.html

and am able to dynamically create a TestApp-1.1.tar.gz, TestApp-1.1-1.noarch.rpm, and TestApp-1.1-1.src.rpm.

But when I double click on TestApp-1.1-1.noarch.rpm two things happen:

1. I click a dialog, accepting to install. Then, the software apparently installs, according to another dialog ("Finished"). But then another dialog comes up on top of the finished dialog to say:

   "Additional confirmation required / To install this file, additional software also has to be modified. The following software needs to be installed: TestApp-1.1-1 (noarch)".

   When I agree to this dialog, it looks like it is checking stuff out online… or just taking a long time. This whole procedure is a little confusing… is this normal?

2. Once installed, only one file is installed – /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/TestApp-1.1-py2.6.egg-info. What is an egg-info file? Where is my application?

When I double click on the TestApp-1.1-1.src.rpm, I get this error in a modal dialog:

"could not do simulate: Backend will not install a src rpm file"

I would appreciate any help on how to make an installable python application for gnome.

Answer 1

Extract the spec from the generated SRPM and then clean it up as per the Fedora Packaging guidelines.

“Packaging:Guidelines”

“Packaging:Python”