[Therion] Fedora 42 xtherion will not start

Bill Gee bgee at campercaver.net
Mon Apr 21 19:14:51 CEST 2025


I upgraded to Fedora 42 over the weekend.  Trying to start xtherion 
gives a message about BWidget missing.  However, it is installed.

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bgee at main2:/public/document/CaveSurveys/CaveSpringCave$ therion --version
therion 6.3.4+dev (compiled on 2025-04-09)
   - using Proj 9.6.0, compiled against 9.4.1

bgee at main2:/public/document/CaveSurveys/CaveSpringCave$ xtherion
Error in startup script: can't find package BWidget
     while executing
"package require BWidget"
     (file "/usr/local/bin/xtherion" line 12925)

bgee at main2:/public/document/CaveSurveys/CaveSpringCave$ su -
Password:

root at main2:~# dnf search bwidget
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Matched fields: name (exact)
  bwidget.noarch: Extended widget set for Tk
Matched fields: name, summary
  kf5-kjobwidgets-devel.i686: Development files for kf5-kjobwidgets
  kf5-kjobwidgets-devel.x86_64: Development files for kf5-kjobwidgets
  kf6-kjobwidgets-devel.i686: Development files for kf6-kjobwidgets
  kf6-kjobwidgets-devel.x86_64: Development files for kf6-kjobwidgets
  kf6-kjobwidgets-doc.noarch: Developer Documentation files for 
kf6-kjobwidgets
Matched fields: name
  kf5-kjobwidgets.i686: KDE Frameworks 5 Tier 2 addon for KJobs
  kf5-kjobwidgets.x86_64: KDE Frameworks 5 Tier 2 addon for KJobs
  kf6-kjobwidgets.i686: KDE Frameworks 6 Tier 2 addon for KJobs
  kf6-kjobwidgets.x86_64: KDE Frameworks 6 Tier 2 addon for KJobs

root at main2:~# dnf install bwidget
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Package "bwidget-1.9.7-24.fc42.noarch" is already installed.

Nothing to do.
root at main2:~#
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I compiled Therion while still on Fedora 41.  Should I recompile?

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Bill Gee



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