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Quote:

Originally Posted by AgogData (Post 895809)

i saw an update yesterday but couldn't update, is there some bug ?

If it was the QR Code plugin then yes, there was a bug. Seems like the autobuilder made a mistake in giving the .deb file the correct hash.

It has been resolved now, so updating your repositories should give you access to v. 0.0.6-1 and that should update fine.

The update should also resolve the problem with international (UTF8) characters in vCards (thanks to Nikolay Bryskin!).

now im trying to update but i got a call in the middle, i dont know if its affecting the update process or not but thats the xterm :

home/user # apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
hildon-desktop
The following packages will be upgraded:
gstreamer0.10-flac mbarcode-plugin-qrcode
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 69.5kB of archives.
After this operation, 41.0kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://repository.maemo.org fremantle/free gstreamer0.10-flac 0.10.15-0maemo3+0m5.tk1.nb1 [32.1kB]
Get:2 http://repository.maemo.org fremantle/free mbarcode-plugin-qrcode 0.0.6-1 [37.4kB]
Fetched 69.5kB in 3s (20.9kB/s)
(Reading database ... 57926 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace gstreamer0.10-flac 0.10.15-0maemo3+0m5.tk1 (using .../gstreamer0.10-flac_0.10.15-0maemo3+0m5.tk1.nb1_armel.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement gstreamer0.10-flac ...
Preparing to replace mbarcode-plugin-qrcode 0.0.5-0 (using .../mbarcode-plugin-qrcode_0.0.6-1_armel.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement mbarcode-plugin-qrcode ...
Setting up account-plugin-salut (0.10) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/account-plugin-salut.postinst: line 6: /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon: not found
dpkg: error processing account-plugin-salut (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Setting up gstreamer0.10-flac (0.10.15-0maemo3+0m5.tk1.nb1) ...
Setting up mbarcode-plugin-qrcode (0.0.6-1) ...

and its still at setting up till now

Hm... That is really strange. I would try removing the old version of the plugin by running,

Code:

apt-get remove mbarcode-plugin-qrcode

then clean the apt cache to make sure you don't have a broken package laying around:

Code:

apt-get clean

Make sure everything is updated,

Code:

apt-get update

and install the qrcode plugin alone:

Code:

apt-get install mbarcode-plugin-qrcode

Please post back if you're still unable to update.

Just an idea.
Would it be possible to send the information I got from barcode and send it to the dhl homepage for shipment tracking?
On the receipt they give me at the post office there is unfortunately no barcode on it only the shipment number. But the postal clerk usually puts a barcode sticker on the packet. So one could ask to take a quick shot with the barcode app then save the number and track the shipment later on the dhl page.

Certainly that should be possible (assuming the barcode type can be decoded - pdf417 is still WIP in libzbar atm). It would be easiest if the DHL webpage accepts the barcode as parameter in the URL. Do you have a link to the relevant pages?

The barcode can be decoded. mbarcode gives the right number when I scan the barcode on the packet. The DHL webpage is http://www.dhl.de/de.html You can also switch to an english version at the top of the page http://www.dhl.de/en.html
I don´t know much about the other packet services like hermes or DPD or UPS. They all have tracking service on their pages. But what´s about the barcode? I´m only used to send packets via dhl.

I think even a separate app just for the mentioned purpose whould be worth it:
Scanning >>> Saving Code >>> Checking status.................Checking again
(Maybe automatic checking? Every X minutes/hours? And sending alarm when the day has come shipment arrived)

I just want to chip in and say thanks a lot for this great program. What I really like is the easyness to add additional requests.
German users might want to add guenstiger.de to their list of search providers.
Just enter:

Code:

http://www.guenstiger.de/Katalog/Preis.pl?suche=%s&x=0&y=0

So thanks again,
icke

Quote:

Originally Posted by lardman (Post 898575)

Quick reply (visited http://www.dhl.de/en.html)...
http://nolp.dhl.de/nextt-online-public/set_identcodes.do?lang=en&idc=<tracknumber>

I don't have a tracking number, so I don't know what the results page looks like.