PAM developement files is not listed as a requirement

[blacklightpy]

This person had trouble building AGS because pkgconf could not find pam.pc.

#295 (comment)

[Freemason-12]

I have pam-devel package installed on my Almalinux 9 system. But for some reason meson does not find it

Executing subproject gutils

gutils| Project name: pam
gutils| Project version: undefined
gutils| C compiler for the host machine: cc (gcc 11.4.1 "cc (GCC) 11.4.1 20230605 (Red Hat 11.4.1-2)")
gutils| C linker for the host machine: cc ld.bfd 2.35.2-42
gutils| Dependency gobject-2.0 found: YES 2.68.4 (cached)
gutils| Dependency gio-2.0 found: YES 2.68.4 (cached)
gutils| Found CMake: /usr/bin/cmake (3.20.2)
gutils| Run-time dependency pam found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)

subprojects/gutils/meson.build:10:0: ERROR: Dependency "pam" not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake

Also it requires a newer version of GJS (1.73.1) while I have 1.68.6, I changed it in meson config and got this error. Not sure whether such a new version is really an important requirement though.

[blacklightpy]

@Freemason-12 See if you have pam.pc in /usr/lib/pkgconfig/. Or see if pkgconf --exists pam exists with a non-zero error code (which would mean it doesn't).

If pam.pc exists in the right path, pkgconf should find it.

[Freemason-12]

@Freemason-12 See if you have pam.pc in /usr/lib/pkgconfig/. Or see if pkgconf --exists pam exists with a non-zero error code (which would mean it doesn't).

If pam.pc exists in the right path, pkgconf should find it.

I wish you replied me a bit sooner, since I already migrated to Ubuntu 24.04.
Also, is gjs version >= 1.73.1 really necessary? Or is an older version ok?

[blacklightpy]

@Freemason-12 That, I don't know. I'm using 1.78 myself, so can't tell. But if you really need it on Almalinux, you could use Nix. Also, ags has a Nix flake, you could install it by nix profile install github:Aylur/ags. You'll have to add experimental-features = nix-command flakes to your nix.conf. Then do sudo systemctl restart nix-daemon.service.

If you want to use Home Manager, you have to set it up by running nix run home-manager/$branch -- init --switch ($branch should be master or release-23.11, depending on your nixpkgs version) to generate .config/home-manager/home.nix and .config/home-manager/flake.nix. Then you do home-manager switch to activate it.

Then follow the install steps here.

And you do nix flake update to update changes to your flakes.

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I'm only learning Nix myself, so my understanding may not be correct here. Using Aylur's dotfiles with flakes would be a bit more complicated, I'll have to try it out myself first.

[kotontrion]

Also, is gjs version >= 1.73.1 really necessary?

Yes. This version introduced async functions for dbus proxies, which are used in some services like system tray and mpris.