Arch Linux User Repository

This package is currently outdated.

However the new version 2.24.69389 [1] has the following new dependencies:

libweb.so.6 - Not packaged by arch, only .7 is available

libre.so.5 - Not packaged by arch, only .9 is available

It is looking for symbol _ZN3re23RE23Arg12parse_stringEPKcmPv in its own packaged libQt6WebEngineCore.so.6, which does not exist. If you make it use the libQt6WebEngineCore.so.6 form the Arch package qt6-webengine, it is looking for Symbol _ZN9QtPrivate25QMetaTypeInterfaceWrapperI4QUrlE8metaTypeE, which does not exist in the Arch version of the library.

I'm unable to resolve these dependencies, disowning.

1: http://activsoftware.co.uk/linux/repos/ubuntu/pool/focal/a/ac/activinspire_2004-2.24.69389-1-amd64.deb

#!/bin/bash
# prevent creation of multiple folders in $HOME
HOME=~/.inspire
horst=()
# set path, so that a file can be opened.
for var in "$@"
do
if [ -e "$var" ]; then horst+=("$PWD/$var") ; else horst+=("$var") ;fi
done
# This script launches ActivInspire. It is partially based on the upstream launch script, with obsolete and Ubuntu-specific stuff fixed or removed.

cd /opt/activsoftware

# Promethean software has a bug that often causes it to hang when attempting to close it using the GUI. So we need to kill those instances before launching a new one.
# kill only when no active window exits
if [ $(wmctrl -l | grep ActivInspire | wc -l) -gt 0 ] ; then : ; else killall -q Inspire ; fi

# ActivInspire needs 32-bit Java for the equation editor (see optional dependencies).
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib32/jvm/java32-8-jre/jre

# Promethean ships ActivInspire with a bunch of libraries. We can't recompile it and there are less problems when using this library versions.
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/activsoftware:/opt/activsoftware/workbench:/opt/activsoftware/workbench/lib:/opt/activsoftware/32bit_libs_for_64bit_OS:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
export GST_PLUGIN_PATH="/opt/activsoftware/32bit_libs_for_64bit_OS:$GST_PLUGIN_PATH"
export QTWEBKIT_PLUGIN_PATH="/opt/activsoftware/32bit_libs_for_64bit_OS:$QTWEBKIT_PLUGIN_PATH"

# Launch and open the file if one was given as an argument.
./Inspire "${horst[@]}"

# This is a lock file. Since ActivInspire hangs when attempting to close it, it never gets deleted, causing problems.
# remove only, when no windows exists
if [ $(wmctrl -l | grep ActivInspire | wc -l) -gt 0 ] ; then : ; else rm -f /dev/shm/sem.promethean ; fi

-Updated

-Some new dependencies in this version

-Added the file com.ubuntu.user-interface.gschema.xml due to user feedback. According to a user ActivInspire doesn't start without that file, for me it does, but I added it anyway.

-Updated.

-Reworked dependencies. This package has always included a bunch of libraries that are shipped by Promethean, but never used it because it replaced the original launcher script with one that omits LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Because there are lots of binary compatibility issues and because QT4 which this still depends on (in contrast to activmgr for example) has dropped to the AUR and would need to be compiled we now use the included libraries.

-Unresolved dependencies:

--This would need lib32-icu52, which doesn't exist in multilib or the AUR. Promethean even ships it with a libicui18n.so.54 file in the activinspire directory, but that is the wrong one, it looks for libicui18n.so.52! When symlinking the ICU it searches to the ICU it shipped with, it fails with "Unable to find symbols in icui18n". Same thing for the official lib32-icu from multilib. But this problem doesn't seem to be critical.

--This would require the 32-bit version of Flash, which doesn't exist in multilib or the AUR. But this problem doesn't seem to be critical.

--The errors relating to libactivboardex.so get are not critical, activtools includes it though. But when activtools is installed, it also searches for libactivlog.so.1, a file which doesn't seem to exist in any packages provided by Promethean. Doesn't seem to be critical either.

--Audio/Video playback doesn't work. Probably some gstreamer dependency issues which I can't work out.

--Dropped 32-bit support. Promethean stuff is finicky with weird binary dependencies so it needs to be tested, and since Arch dropped 32-bit I don't have a test system.

It's out of date, please give the current deb package, i cannot find it.

Warning: evince 3.20.1-1 breaks the start of inspire, with evince 3.20.0-2 it works. At least with the 32 bit version and activtools and activdriver installed. With 64bit and without activtools, it doesn't happen. Leads to errors like this: (Inspire:11684): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type 'GdkDisplayManager' (Inspire:11684): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion 'result != 0' failed (Inspire:11684): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed (Inspire:11684): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance