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grip package

Unable to install grip after extracting its .tar.gz archive using either tar command or Archive Manager

Asked by Julianloui

After I successfully downloaded grip-3.3.1.tar.gz from www.sourceforge.net and extracted its contents using either the tar -zvxf command or Archive Manger in Ubuntu 12.04, I could see the resultant directory grip-3.3.1 as well as its contents. However, when I issued the following command to install grip-3.3.1, the system returned the following four error lines.

Julianloui

E: Unable to locate package grip-3.3.1
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'grip-3.3.1'
E: Unable to locate package grip-3.3.1.tar.gz
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'grip-3.3.1.tar.gz'

The grip-3.3.1 directory shows the following files:

ABOUT-NLS
aclocal.m4

AUTHORS
ChangeLog
config.guess
config.h.in
config.sub
configureABOUT-NLSABOUT-NLS
aclocal.m4ABOUT-NLS
aclocal.m4
AUTHORS
ChangeLog
config.guess
config.h.in
config.sub
configure
configure.in
contrib
COPYING
CREDITS
depcomp
doc
grip.desktop
grip-dir
grip.spec.in
INSTALL
install-sh
ltconfig
ltmain.sh
Makefile.am
Makefile.in
missing
mkinstalldirs
NEWS
pixmaps
poABOUT-NLS
aclocal.m4
AUTHORS
ChangeLog
config.guess
config.h.in
config.sub
configure
configure.in
contrib
COPYING
CREDITS
depcomp
doc
grip.desktop
grip-dir
grip.spec.in
INSTALL
install-sh
ltconfig
ltmain.sh
Makefile.am
Makefile.in
missing
mkinstalldirs
NEWS
pixmaps
po
README
src
TODO
README
src
TODO
AUTHORS
ChangeLog
config.guess
config.h.in
config.sub
configure
configure.in
contrib
COPYING
CREDITS
depcomp
doc
grip.desktop
grip-dir
grip.spec.in
INSTALL
install-sh
ltconfig
ltmain.sh
Makefile.am
Makefile.in
missing
mkinstalldirs
NEWS
pixmaps
po
README
src
TODO
aclocal.m4
AUTHORS
ChangeLog
config.guess
config.h.in
config.sub
configure
configure.in
contrib
COPYING
CREDITS
depcomp
doc
grip.desktop
grip-dir
grip.spec.in
INSTALL
install-sh
ltconfig
ltmain.sh
Makefile.am
Makefile.in
missing
mkinstalldirs
NEWS
pixmaps
po
README
src
TODO
configure.in
contrib
COPYING
CREDITS
depcomp
doc
grip.desktop
grip-dir
grip.spec.in
INSTALL
install-sh
ltconfig
ltmain.sh
Makefile.am
Makefile.in
missing
mkinstalldirs
NEWS
pixmaps
po
README
src
TODO

ABOUT-NLS
aclocal.m4
AUTHORS
ChangeLog
config.guess
config.h.in
config.sub
configure
configure.in
contrib
COPYING
CREDITS
depcomp
doc
grip.desktop
grip-dir
grip.spec.in
INSTALL
install-sh
ltconfig
ltmain.sh
Makefile.am
Makefile.in
missing
mkinstalldirs
NEWS
pixmaps
po
README
src
TODO

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Manfred Hampl
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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

1. I am correcting the language of this question document from Zuni to English

2. I found on sourceforge only the source of the program, and rpm packages. There is nothing what you can directly install on an Ubuntu system. You would have to either compile the program from the source that you have downloaded, or convert the right rpm package to a deb package (e.g. with alien).

I guess it will be far easier to enable the PPA https://launchpad.net/~otto-kesselgulasch/+archive/testbildtest and install grip with the normal package management tools, e.g.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/testbildtest
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install grip

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

(To make it clear: The document contents were already in English, just the language code information was "Zuni")

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Julianloui (julianloui) said : 		#3

Manfred,

1. I too have noticed this change by someone else from English to Zuni, but I was unable to correct it.
3. Can you tell me how to enable this PPA before I proceed to install it the normal way?
Thanks.

Julianloui

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#4

The required command are already contained in reply #1

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/testbildtest
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install grip

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Julianloui (julianloui) said : 		#5

Manfred,

Thanks. grip fails to find the CD drive regardless of what /dev name I use, such as /dev/cdrom1 or /dev/sr1 via the Config tab. My computer has a CD drive and a DVD drive.

Julianloui

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#6

I have never tried using grip, so I do not know anything about that program.
What I can imagine is an access rights problem.

What is the output of

id
ls -la /dev/sr*
ls -ls /dev/cd*

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Julianloui (julianloui) said : 		#7

Manfred,

Here are the outputs.

1. id output
uid=1000(jul) gid=1000(jul) groups=1000(jul),4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),109(lpadmin),124(sambashare)

2. /dev/sr* output
brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 May 23 01:05 /dev/sr0
brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 1 May 23 02:27 /dev/sr1

3. dev/cd* output
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 23 01:05 /dev/cdrom -> sr0
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 23 02:27 /dev/cdrom1 -> sr1

Lshw yields the same information in that my CD drive's logical names are /dev/cdrom1 and /dev/sr1. Tonight grip suddenly worked for me whether I chose /dev/cdrom1 or /dev/sr1 in the Config tab. It ripped several song CDs rather fast. But once in a while the old problem of it failing to detect an inserted CD pops up again. I don't know if
this is a system problem.

Thanks very much. At least I now know grip works and that's good enough for me.

Julianloui

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Julianloui (julianloui) said : 		#8

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.