Problem with installing compiled geany

[CheckB]

Ubuntu 18.04.
Package assembled through checkinstall.

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of geany:
 geany depends on glib2; however:
  Package glib2 is not installed.
 geany depends on gtk2; however:
  Package gtk2 is not installed.
 geany depends on pango; however:
  Package pango is not installed.

build:

./autogen.sh --disable-html-docs
./configure --disable-html-docs
checkinstall

[codebrainz]

What does this have to do with setting up build commands on Windows?

[CheckB]

I have postponed the decision for later and not to create another issue, renamed this one.

[codebrainz]

For the future, it's better to create a separate issue for separate topics as to not confuse the comments archive and people who read/respond to Github mails, which only show the original issue.

For the new issue, you probably need to install the development packages for those listed in the error message. I'm not in Linux at the moment, but they should end with -dev. Installing the GTK+2 development package will probably pull in the others, and IIRC it's called libgtk2.0-dev.

[elextr]

@CheckB since edits are not disseminated what you have done is confuse anyone watching by email. All replies will seem completely off topic.

If you are no longer interested in an issue close with a polite note.

[CheckB]

@codebrainz

I now have libgtk2.0-dev, libgtk2.0-common, libgtk2.0-bin, libgtk2.0-0, but for some reason it still requires a library ...

@elextr @codebrainz

Excuse me! Did not know...

[elextr]

@CheckB you need to install the -dev versions of all the packages configure asks for.

[codebrainz]

@CheckB maybe try without checkinstall, just replace the command with make and see if it compiles. If it does, you'll know it's an issue with checkinstall and can troubleshoot that issue separately. As long as you don't run sudo make install it won't mess with your system.

[CheckB]

geany compiled, but I already put .deb and .deb itself requests the missing libraries for geany :)

[codebrainz]

According to the checkinstall man page you need to specify which packages are required using the --requires option. Probably just specifying the libgtk2.0-dev package will be enough to pull in the others.

[lpaulsen93]

@CheckB: I also develop on Ubuntu. In my private wiki I have got the following note about libs which need to be installed (this might not be a minimal list):

sudo apt-get install autoconf
sudo apt-get install intltool
sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev
sudo apt-get install gtk+2.0
sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev
sudo apt-get install libtool

Optionally for some tasks (but not required) the following libs and tools can be installed:

# For rst2html
sudo apt-get install python3-docutils

# For Source-Code-Check
sudo apt-get install cppcheck

# For generating the source-sode documentation
sudo apt-get install doxygen doxygen-doc doxygen-gui graphviz 

[CheckB]

@LarsGit223
The problem is the same. geany still requires:

dpkg: dependency configuration of geany:
  geany depends on glib2; however:
   Package glib2 is not installed.
  geany depends on gtk2; however:
   Package gtk2 is not installed.
  geany depends on pango; however:
   Package pango is not installed.

[elextr]

@CheckB what is that message from, please always post the command, not just the output?

Geany requires a Glib2, but the package name is not "glib2" similarly GTK2. You can see likely real names of the packages in the post from @LarsGit223.

[CheckB]

@elextr
Compile using checkinstall.
checkinstall builds .deb and installs it. Accordingly, after installation, the message appears...

Although all packages are installed

[elextr]

@CheckB I said show the command you used, checkinstall has many options, its important to know what you actually ran.

[CheckB]

@elextr
No options. checkinstall and all

[eht16]

What do you want to achieve after all?

Geany packages exist already in Ubuntu.
And if you still want to compile yourself, apt-get build-dep geany will install anything for you which is necessary to build Geany yourself.

[CheckB]

@eht16

I just need the latest version package.
How will build-dep help me if I have geany compiled? I have problems installing the package, because geany requires a dependency.
I built a lot of packages using checkinstall, without any options and stuck it only with geany.

[b4n]

OK, trying it myself made me find the problem: Geany's sources include a .spec file that was probably designed to build a package for Fedora. Unfortunately checkinstall is reading this, which contains incorrect informations like dependencies when building on Ubuntu.

You should pass the correct flags for checkinstall, or remove the spec file before running it.
Something like this might possibly do it: checkinstall --type=debian --pkgversion="1.35" --provides="geany-abi-72, geany-api-239" --requires="libglib2.0-0, libgtk3.0-0, libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0" --spec=geany_checkinstall.spec --exclude='*.la'. Not tested though ⚠️

[elextr]

@b4n if the .spec is a distro specific thingy it probably should be removed, especially if it confuses other tools. After consulting the fedora packager (@dmaphy?) of course :)

[CheckB]

@b4n

Geany's sources include a .spec file that was probably designed to build a package for Fedora.

Thx. It works )

[codebrainz]

if the .spec is a distro specific thingy it probably should be removed, especially if it confuses other tools

It didn't confuse checkinstall, a tool for generating several kinds of packages, it confused a user of checkinstall who happened to be using it for Debian instead of Fedora packages. That said, if nobody is using or maintaining this .spec file, opting to maintain their own downstream instead, then removing it would make sense.

[eht16]

See #2064 for removing the spec file.
I guess I added it in the very early days of Geany development to have it or just for playing with it, can't say for sure but I agree that it is most probably not necessary any longer today as many distros already have their own package files.