"smart --gui" gives an error. Why?

[Kam Leo]

On 8/26/06, Dean S. Messing <deanm at sharplabs.com> wrote:
>
> I've been using yum from the command line and decided to see how well
> the GUI of "smart" works.  So I installed it via yum and all
> dependencies were met.
>
> But when I try to start it, this happens:
>
>    [root at neuron ~]# smart --gui
>    error: Interface 'gtk' not available
>
> However
>
>    [root at neuron ~]# rpm -q --requires smart
>    /usr/bin/python
>    libc.so.6
>    libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
>    libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
>    libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)
>    libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)
>    libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)
>    libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4)
>    libpthread.so.0
>    python(abi) = 2.4
>    python-abi = 2.4
>    rpm-python >= 4.4
>    rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
>    rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
>    smart-config
>
> No gkt is mentioned.
> What "gtk" package am I missing?
> Here's what's on my system:
>
>    [root at neuron ~]# rpm -qa | fgrep -i gtk
>    gtkspell-2.0.11-1.2.1
>    usermode-gtk-1.85-2.2
>    pygtk2-2.8.6-0.fc5.1
>    gtk+-1.2.10-50
>    gnome-python2-gtkhtml2-2.14.0-1
>    libgtk-java-2.8.6-2.fc5
>    gtk2-engines-2.7.4-3
>    gtk2-2.8.20-1
>    gtkhtml3-3.10.3-1.fc5.1
>    gtkhtml2-2.6.3-1.2.1
>    gtk2-devel-2.8.20-1
>    gtk-doc-1.6-1.fc5.1
>    pygtk2-libglade-2.8.6-0.fc5.1
>    authconfig-gtk-5.2.3-1
>    pygtk2-devel-2.8.6-0.fc5.1
>
>
> Dean
>

That's because smart is attempting to open a graphics window and you
are in text-only mode.  If you are in Gnome or KDE and opened a
console/terminal window the command should work.