[PyQt] Eric4 on Ubuntu - file opening issue (FIXED)

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Mittwoch, 23. April 2008, Neil Wallace wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This may be unique to my setup, but maybe this will be of use to others,
> so I'll share.
> I found that Eric4 was baulking when I tried to open a file such as
> "/home/neil/prog/my\ gui.py", whether via a launcher or from the command
> line i.e. $eric4 /home/neil/prog/my\ gui.py
>
> The problem was that the arguments got hashed up, and Eric assumed I was
> to edit 2 files "/home/neil/prog/my" and "gui.py" , neither of which
> exist of course.
>
> Anyway, the problem was in the shell script /usr/local/bin/eric4
> I changed the following line
> exec "/usr/bin/python" "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/eric4/eric4.py" $*
> to
> exec "/usr/bin/python" "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/eric4/eric4.py"
> "$*"

The correct fix is

exec "/usr/bin/python" "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/eric4/eric4.py" "$@"

Detlev

>
> (quotes around $*)
>
> Regards
>
> Neil.
>
>
>
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