Cannot build libappindicator from source on Ubuntu 18.04 (unclear how)
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| libappindicator (Ubuntu) |
New
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I am trying to build libappindicator from source, but I cannot. I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.
First I tried via `apt-get-source`:
```
$ apt-get source libappindicator3-1
Reading package lists... Done
E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list
```
I do:
* edit via `sudo nano /etc/apt/
* uncomment the line `# deb-src http://
* then run `sudo apt update`
Then again:
```
$ apt-get source libappindicator3-1
Reading package lists... Done
Picking 'libappindicator' as source package instead of 'libappindicato
NOTICE: 'libappindicator' packaging is maintained in the 'Bzr' version control system at:
https:/
Please use:
bzr branch https:/
to retrieve the latest (possibly unreleased) updates to the package.
Need to get 87.9 kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://
Get:2 http://
Get:3 http://
Fetched 87.9 kB in 0s (227 kB/s)
dpkg-source: info: extracting libappindicator in libappindicator
dpkg-source: info: unpacking libappindicator
dpkg-source: info: applying libappindicator
$ ls libappindicator
acinclude.m4 bindings COPYING docs Makefile.am Makefile.am.marshal src
AUTHORS ChangeLog COPYING.LGPL.2.1 example Makefile.
autogen.sh configure.ac debian m4 Makefile.am.enum README
```
The `autogen.sh` script seems to use `gnome-autogen.sh` and `gtkdocize`:
```
$ gnome-autogen.sh
Command 'gnome-autogen.sh' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install gnome-common
$ gtkdocize
Command 'gtkdocize' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install gtk-doc-tools
$ sudo apt install gnome-common # installs: autoconf-archive gnome-common intltool
$ sudo apt install gtk-doc-tools # installs: docbook docbook-to-man docbook-xml docbook-xsl gtk-doc-tools highlight highlight-common libosp5 opensp python-funcsigs python-mock python-pbr sgml-data xml-core
```
So now I try `autogen.sh`:
```
cd libappindicator
$ ./autogen.sh
/usr/bin/
***Warning*** USE_COMMON_
***Warning*** USE_GNOME2_MACROS is deprecated, you may remove it from autogen.sh
***Warning*** $srcdir is not defined, out of dir autogen is broken!
...
No package 'indicator-0.4' found
No package 'dbusmenu-gtk-0.4' found
```
Ok, let's see about these libraries:
```
$ apt-show-versions -R dbusmenu-gtk-0.4
gir1.2-
gir1.2-
$ sudo apt install gir1.2-
$ apt-show-versions -R indicator-0.4 # returns nothing
$ apt-show-versions -R ^indicator
indicator-
indicator-
indicator-
...
$ apt-show-versions -R ^indicator | wc -l
39
```
So there are 39 packages starting with `indicator*` - none of them is `indicator-0.4`.
Maybe there is something in README?
```
libappindicator
A readme is the very beginning, a very nice place to start. When you read
you begin with A-B-C when you code you begin with RE-AD-ME!
```
Ohhhh, hahaha :) Thanks a lot, that was really helpful :)
Let's try autogen again?
```
$ ./autogen.sh
/usr/bin/
***Warning*** USE_COMMON_
***Warning*** USE_GNOME2_MACROS is deprecated, you may remove it from autogen.sh
***Warning*** $srcdir is not defined, out of dir autogen is broken!
checking for automake >= 1.11.2...
testing automake... found 1.15.1
...
Running ./configure --enable-
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
...
checking for GTKDOC_DEPS... yes
checking for LIBRARY... no
configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.18
No package 'indicator-0.4' found
No package 'dbusmenu-gtk-0.4' found
...
```
Ok, so it didn't even pick up `dbusmenu-gtk-0.4` that I just installed.
------
So, trying to look for upstream source, I found this:
* https:/
* https:/
* https:/
... and ran the command listed in the last link:
```
git clone https:/
```
... this got me what seems the exact same folder I got from `apt-get source libappindicator
Finally, lets try the `bzr` mentioned earlier:
```
$ bzr branch https:/
bzr: ERROR: httplib.
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
```
(
This seems to be the same problem as:
Bug #1807226 “bzr: ERROR: httplib.
https:/
)
I would consider this a documentation bug - documentation should note:
* Where does the upstream code for libappindicator reside?
* How to build `libappindicator` from source?
Also, from a quick glance online, it seems that `libappindicator` is itself sponsored by Ubuntu; and not being able to build it from source on Ubuntu, makes me ask - is this project maybe abandoned?
| Juhani Numminen (jsonic) wrote | #1 |
Use apt-get to rebuild packages in a simple fashion.
sudo apt-get build-dep libappindicator
apt-get source --compile libappindicator
A debian package can also be built using dpkg-buildpackage.
The files debian/copyright and debian/watch in the source package document that the upstream source was downloaded from https:/
libappindicator indeed seems to be abandoned. There is a fork called Ayatana Indicators that is active.
https:/
https:/
https:/