[Suggestion] I'm willing to package this app for Debian

[bharadwaj-raju]

I see your app only has packages for Fedora and Arch Linux.

I'm willing to create a Debian .deb package that will build from the git repository each time it is installed.

[bharadwaj-raju]

Sorry, saw you have a debian/ directory with a Debian package (but no built .deb...)

[samdroid-apps]

@bharadwaj-raju, does the debian/ package work still?

You could make a repository if you want. Does debian have a COPR or PPA like system? Or do we just chuck a few package files on a file server and call it a day?

[bharadwaj-raju]

I've yet to test building the package.

PPAs can work on any deb-based system (Debian included, but Debian requires a few packages (software-properties-common, python-software-properties) to be installed before PPA usage).

As for me making a PPA, I don't have a Launchpad account.

My idea is that instead of the deb containing a specific snapshot of the repository, it's install-script just clones the current repository and builds it. You can host it on a file-sharing server (Dropbox etc) somewhere or even GitHub (I have a bharadwaj-raju/packages repository just to hold such built packages for my projects).

[bharadwaj-raju]

Build fails after installing all packages specified in debian/control:

$ ./autogen.sh
[ Some output truncated... ]
./configure: line 13369: syntax error near unexpected token `1.35.9'
./configure: line 13369: `GOBJECT_INTROSPECTION_REQUIRE(1.35.9)'

[alamsohelrana]

Dear Bharadwaj, happy to see another debian enthusiast like me.

I have removed the issue with sudo apt-get install gobject-introspection

But got stuck again..

got below error

checking for SOMETHING_FOR_REDDIT... no
configure: error: Package requirements (gio-2.0 >= 2.42
                                         libsoup-2.4 >= 2.4
                                         webkit2gtk-4.0 >= 2.0
                                         json-glib-1.0 >= 1.0
                                         gtk+-3.0 >= 3.20) were not met:

No package 'libsoup-2.4' found
No package 'webkit2gtk-4.0' found
No package 'json-glib-1.0' found
No package 'gtk+-3.0' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables SOMETHING_FOR_REDDIT_CFLAGS
and SOMETHING_FOR_REDDIT_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

I believe the issue is with configure.ac in line 60

PKG_CHECK_MODULES(SOMETHING_FOR_REDDIT, [gio-2.0 >= 2.42
                                         libsoup-2.4 >= 2.4
                                         webkit2gtk-4.0 >= 2.0
                                         json-glib-1.0 >= 1.0
                                         gtk+-3.0 >= 3.20])

How to bypass this ??

And also do you have an fb or twitter account

Edit: Also I checked, those are already installed in my system(maybe with different name like Note, selecting 'libwebkitgtk-3.0-cil' for regex 'gtk+-3.0')

But I believe the best way is to configure the variables.

[khurshid-alam]

@samdroid-apps

Can you update the dependencies in debian ?

gio-2.0 >= 2.42------------------- gir1.2-glib-2.0
libsoup-2.4 >= 2.4--------------- gir1.2-soup-2.4
webkit2gtk-4.0 >= 2.0---------- gir1.2-webkit2-4.0
json-glib-1.0 >= 1.0------------- gir1.2-json-1.0
gtk+-3.0 >= 3.20----------------- gir1.2-gtk-3.0

These are for package dependencies. Build dependencies needs to be adapted as well.

[samdroid-apps]

Thanks for tracking it down. I don't have a debian instance right now. If you are making the changes right now, feel free to send a pull request!

If not, give me a yell and I'll try to fix it. 😄