checkgmail does not login: Unable to find gmail_ik

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I can assure that the patch works but the the checkgmail notifier isn't visible which might be due to unsatisfied dependencies which also include libgtk2.

The following error is obtained:

Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap", at /usr/lib/perl5/Gtk2.pm line 138.

Though the patch resolves the login issue.

Posted it in a hurry. Clearly it's a warning and not an error. Also please ignore the mention of libgtk2 in previous comment. Sorry about that.

After the restart checkgmail shows up in systray. I also whitelisted all apps before restarting so I am not sure what actually made it work.

Assuming I'm not a C programmer, how does one apply the patch?

The attached patch works for me.

Contrary to Mikhail's post, the above posted patch does not work for me.

I am using the latest version as pulled from the sourceforge svn.

This error occurs:
patching file usr/local/bin/checkgmail
Hunk #1 FAILED at 920.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 936.
2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file usr/bin/checkgmail.rej

Upon investigation, I found that my install of checkgmail was in /usr/bin/, but changing the patch file by hand to reflect this did not work.

I then manually applied the patch, but this also did not work.

This bug was fixed in the package checkgmail - 1.13+svn43-3fakesync1

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checkgmail (1.13+svn43-3fakesync1) precise; urgency=low

  * Fake sync due to mismatching orig tarball
  * Debian update fixes LP: #851553 aka Debian #650454

checkgmail (1.13+svn43-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/control
    - add Vcs-* fields, moving to git
    - bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2
    - replace libcompress-zlib-perl with libio-compress-perl
  * debian/copyright
    - bump packaging copyright years
  * Convert to 3.0 quilt source format
  * debian/README.source
    - removed, useless
  * Convert to dh7 short rules file
  * debian/patches/60_bts650454_send_galx_as_cookie.patch
    - fix auth problem with GMail, by passing GALX in the cookie; thanks to
      Johan Sandblom for the report; Closes: #650454
 -- Micah Gersten <email address hidden> Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:01:57 -0600

thanks micah! i will just have to confirm that it is working great now in precise