portable apps and libdbus-glib

linuks · 2017-12-30 22:46:34

Hello,

After my first successful arch installation I've decided to give my favorite PaleMoon browser a go.
As it happens I used to use a portable version of it, which worked fine under slackware but I was very surprised that I had problems running it under Arch.
It complained about "libdbus-glib-1.so.2" file apparently required by mozilla XUL library. The only similar package from pacman that I was able to find was libdbusmenu-* but it's not quite what I needed. Also, searching with pacman -F resulted with nothing.

I had to trick the system and use slackware package dbus-glib-0.108-x86_64-1.txz that contains required file and which I had to manually copy into the arch installation.

This worked!

However,after that, two questions have arisen:

What have I done wrong and what would be the proper/neat way of sorting this problem?
Is it against Arch policy to use portable apps?

Regards

linuks

WorMzy · 2017-12-30 23:00:18

The only similar package from pacman that I was able to find was libdbusmenu-*The only similar package from pacman that I was able to find was libdbusmenu-*

Why not dbus-glib?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … cific_file

Aside: this portable app isn't very portable if it requires you to install libraries on the end system. Incidentally, there's palemoon-bin available on the AUR if you don't want to compile from source. Installing that would probably be the "neat" solution, as the package would pull in the dependencies required for running it (including dbus-glib).

linuks · 2017-12-30 23:09:29

WorMzy,

You're right. I missed that package. However, I don't know why searching through pacman -F did not gave me the package name first?

You're also right with two other issues.
Thanks for help!

linuks

WorMzy · 2017-12-31 00:30:21

I don't know why searching through pacman -F did not gave me the package name first?

I'll hazard a guess that you didn't download/update your file databases ('pacman -Fy') first. If you don't have any file databases synced, you'll get warnings along the lines of

database file for 'core' does not exist

Anyway, if your question has been answered, please mark your thread as solved by editing the first post and amending the topic title.

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#1 2017-12-30 22:46:34

portable apps and libdbus-glib

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Re: portable apps and libdbus-glib

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Re: portable apps and libdbus-glib

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Re: portable apps and libdbus-glib

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