[Alexandria-list] Ubuntu 7.10 and Alexandria

[Cathal Mc Ginley]

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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:20:42 +0100 (CET)
"Jack Myrseth" <jack at enkom.no> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> just an update on the Ubuntu 7.10 intall, sucess at last! But I am
> sorry to tell you that I do not know what the problem was, after to
> many installs/uninstalls during the day. No use speculating into
> that. Still no Amazon, but that's a minor problem.
 
Still no Amazon? Did you download and install the deb from
http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/dependencies/ruby-amazon/libamazon-ruby_0.9.2_all.deb

If you have the irb package installed, run this inside an irb session:

  require 'amazon'

You should get:
=> true

If so, Amazon support should be enabled for Alexandria.

> Acquire from scanner does not show that Cuecat is connected, it but
> works perfectly as keyboard input.
> 

I don't know how to detect the presence of a USB or PS/2 device from
Ruby. I know in earlier versions of Alexandria it relied on a patch for
the Linux kernel which passed unscrambled scanned input into a
particular device which Alexandria checked for. Now, we just treat a
CueCat as another type of keyboard input.

> So, my problem for now is that my most important provider
> z3950.bibsys.no, that is a common base for most libraries i Norway
> does not support search and retrieve in one operation (piggybacking)
> and throw error 1005. Let a fix to that be my wish for coming
> versions.
 
Ah yes, you reported this in #13302. A very thorough report, thanks!
I've confirmed this bug and added it to the 0.6.3 Milestone.

> I have started on the nb.po, so the next step would be to get a
> developement versison to do some contextual testing of the
> translation. I am sure you can give me some advice on that.
> 

I wrote a short article about this:
http://www.gnostai.org/journal/2007/12/28/getting-started-with-alexandria-development/

Be aware that the current development version is going through an
unstable phase at the moment, and *may* break your library. 
It's easy enough to make a back-up:

  cp ~/.alexandria ~/library-backup-1

Also, note the paragraph in the article about 
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/
in case you get strange behaviour from one version showing up in
what *should* be another version... 

Good luck,

   -   C.
 
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