Installing on PopOS (Cosmic DE)

[DavidHoenisch]

FYI for those installing on Pop!_OS. There are a few deps you need that are not-so-obvious unless you read the pip install logs. On my setup, I needed these and then the install completed fine:

sudo apt install cmake
sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev
sudo apt install libgirepository-2.0-dev

[jatinkrmalik]

Hey @DavidHoenisch, thanks for flagging this, I really appreciate you taking the time to dig into the pip logs and share the missing packages!

You were spot on with all three. We had cmake missing across the board (needed by pywhispercpp to build whisper.cpp), libcairo2-dev was only in the Debian list but not the Ubuntu one (which Pop!_OS uses), and the libgirepository package needed version-aware detection since newer distros like Pop!_OS Cosmic ship the 2.0 variant.

This has been fixed and merged in #379. It will be available in the next Nightly or Beta release.

Thanks again for the contribution!