dotedit not working for graphviz-cairo

I can confirm this. On Ubuntu Gutsy, the error message given is:

Error: renderer for gtk is unavailable

I get exact same output as stefan.

The reason this bug annoys me is that dotedit is the whole reason why this package depends on a bunch of GTK and GNOME libraries, and it doesn't even work!

<jamesh> kiko: looking in /usr/lib/graphviz/config4, I don't see either of the graphviz-cairo plugins registered

Just noticed the problem here running Hardy. Saw dotedit in the menus, thought it might be useful, wondered why running it did nothing, tried running it from the command line, got the same error.

Hereby confirming that this bug is present in the current Intrepid. When run in the terminal it states:

Format: "gtk" not recognized. Use one of: canon cmap cmapx cmapx_np dia dot fig gd gd2 gif hpgl imap imap_np ismap jpe jpeg jpg mif mp pcl pdf pic plain plain-ext png ps ps2 svg svgz vml vmlz vrml vtx wbmp xdot xlib

Package: graphviz-cairo
Version: 2.8-3

I can confirm this. On Ubuntu Intrepid, the error message given is:
Format: "gtk" not recognized. Use one of: canon cmap cmapx cmapx_np dia dot fig gd gd2 gif hpgl imap imap_np ismap jpe jpeg jpg mif mp pcl pdf pic plain plain-ext png ps ps2 svg svgz vml vmlz vrml vtx wbmp xdot xlib

It's not even possible to build this package from the apt source. Many errors ranging from NULL not defined, to libcairo problems. Even autogen died because of a missing macro.

This package is so broken it should be removed until it's fixed.

I have the same one in Jaunty 64bit...

Confirmed on Jaunty 64-bit.

Confirmed on Jaunty 32-bit

I just looked into '/usr/bin/dotedit'. This is only a simple Shell-Script, that launches dot - either on a file given as an argument or on '/usr/share/graphviz/dotedit-splash.dot'.
So it isn't very usefull after all and acts merely as a test case for graphviz.
The reason it doesn't work: 'gtk' is specified as target-format, which isn't a format dot does recognize. One can of course change this manually, by substituting '-Tgtk' with '-Tsvg' (or '-Tpng' or any other valid Target-Format).

Here's the whole script:

#!/bin/bash

if test "x$@" = "x"
then
 dotfile=/usr/share/graphviz/dotedit-splash.dot
else
 dotfile="$@"
fi

exec dot -Tsvg "$dotfile"

This error still appear in 9.10 Release Candidate.

I can confirm that the error exists in the released version of 9.10 Karmic Koala

It is also not working in lucid atm, I suggest the last line in the dotedit script to be changed to

exec dot -Txlib "$dotfile"

which does work out of the box. Simplest patch ever attached.

I can confirm that harrydb's patch works for me (Karmic, graphviz-cairo 2.8-3).

The patched dotedit is still useless as a menu item, but it could conceivably be of use as a handler for graphviz dot files.

The problem is still there in the later versions of Ubuntu.
However, it can be bypassed by using any option other than gtx..
Try jpeg or png..

eg.

  dot -Tpng "/usr/share/graphviz/dotedit-splash.dot" > dotedit.png

will do the job...
I cannot get the hyperlinks in the code :(

The solutions given here it seems that doesn't work. I am using Karmic.