[Resolved]Error installing conky-lua

Linuxplorer · 2017-06-21 18:56:15

I am trying to install conky-lua from AUR. The package build fails stating "unable to find program 'git'". Do I need to install the package 'git' in order for this to succeed? It is my understanding that git is a version control system for developers.

Thanks

edit: The answer to my question was simply yes. The git package is necessary for some packages to install correctly.

Last edited by Linuxplorer (2017-06-21 20:42:37)

Trilby · 2017-06-21 19:00:09

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

Xyne · 2017-06-21 19:16:51

As Trilby's link recommends, you need to post full output and complete information if you want help.

Some packages require git to download source files from remote git repos. This is usually restricted to packages with the "-git" suffix, which indicates development versions, but makepkg can pull static versions from a git repo too.

conky-lua doesn't seem to require git, but one of its dependencies may. We could tell you which one if you post the full output of whatever command is failing. The error itself may indicate that a packager forget to add a build dependency to the PKGBUILD.

fsckd · 2017-06-21 20:17:19

Hi Linuxplorer, "[Closed]" is a marking for threads which have actually been closed by a moderator. Editing the title with that only adds confusion. Please do not do that. I have removed it from this thread.

If you have found a solution, please post it. If not, please provide the information requested by Trilby and Xyne. If you think this thread has no further future, you can request a moderator actually close it by reporting your thread.

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Thank you.

loqs · 2017-06-21 22:21:39

So https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/conky-lua/ is missing a makedepends on git you could leave a message on the aur package page asking the maintainer to include it.

Linuxplorer · 2017-06-21 22:38:31

loqs wrote:

So https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/conky-lua/ is missing a makedepends on git you could leave a message on the aur package page asking the maintainer to include it.

I will do that. I learn more about this stuff everyday.

Xyne · 2017-06-21 23:11:51

Linuxplorer wrote:

loqs wrote:
So https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/conky-lua/ is missing a makedepends on git you could leave a message on the aur package page asking the maintainer to include it.
I will do that. I learn more about this stuff everyday.

No. conky-lua does not seem to directly depend on git. One of it's dependencies might, but that is not the responsibility of the conky-lua maintainer. This is why we keep asking for the actual command output, so we can determine which package is missing the dependency.

I see that you have already left a comment on conky-lua page.

loqs · 2017-06-21 23:18:31

Apologies for the confusion I looked at the packages upstream url not the source url.

Trilby · 2017-06-22 00:27:57

OK, perhaps I should have been more verbose. That package does not depend on git, and there is nothing in the PKGBUILD that looks like it should depend on git. So your out-of-context paraphrased error message is confusing. Many people in this thread are taking random stabs in the dark at what the problem *might* be, wherease if you would just provide the complete output we'd not have to be in the dark.

I did just try building this myself (after removing git) and it seems there is a problem in the Conky.cmake input. The CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE is not actually being set to RELEASE (despite that being in the PKGBUILD).

~~The following sed line in the build function (right after the cd to the srcdir) fixes it:~~

sed -i 's/#\(set(RELEASE true)\)/\1/' cmake/Conky.cmake

(edit: see Xyne's solution below instead)

loqs · 2017-06-22 01:30:26

@Trilby it appears the conky package in extra has a makedepends on git to work around the same issue.

Xyne · 2017-06-22 01:42:53

Well, f#$%.

Btw, just add

-D RELEASE=true

to the cmake command options in the build function.

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