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CheezerMcNeezer

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Registered: 2017-10-14

Posts: 1

cairo library in lua (apparently) nonexistent

So i wanted to write some lua scripts for conky
I go into the interactive lua shell to see if the cairo library is there ">require 'cairo' "
it gives me the supposed directories of where it should be and tells me its not there

> require 'cairo'
stdin:1: module 'cairo' not found:
    no field package.preload['cairo']
    no file '/usr/share/lua/5.3/cairo.lua'
    no file '/usr/share/lua/5.3/cairo/init.lua'
    no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.3/cairo.lua'
    no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.3/cairo/init.lua'
    no file './cairo.lua'
    no file './cairo/init.lua'
    no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.3/cairo.so'
    no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.3/loadall.so'
    no file './cairo.so'
stack traceback:
    [C]: in function 'require'
    stdin:1: in main chunk
    [C]: in ?
>

do i need to install some sort of package or does it just not work in the interactive shell?

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,279

Re: cairo library in lua (apparently) nonexistent

conky only provides the cairo and imlib2 binding internally, they won't work in your external lua installation.
Additionally, the conky from [extra] is only compiled with imlib2, so you should use that. If you really want cairo, then you'll have to recompile it with cairo enabled.

Last edited by progandy (2017-10-14 19:05:14)

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