lepton-schematic ubuntu impish fails to run

[DavidAustin]

Trying to run lepton-schematic from the ubuntu impish package gives:

$ lepton-schematic 
;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0
;;;       or pass the --no-auto-compile argument to disable.
;;; compiling /usr/bin/lepton-schematic
;;; WARNING: compilation of /usr/bin/lepton-schematic failed:
;;; In procedure dynamic-link: file: "libglib-2.0", message: "file not found"
Backtrace:
           3 (primitive-load "/usr/bin/lepton-schematic")
In ice-9/eval.scm:
   187:27  2 (_ _)
   223:20  1 (proc #<directory (guile-user) 7f975fb8cc80>)
In unknown file:
           0 (%resolve-variable (7 . liblepton_init) #<directory (gu…>)

ERROR: In procedure %resolve-variable:
Unbound variable: liblepton_init

I have libglib2.0-0:amd64 installed which provides /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0.6800.4

[graahnul-grom]

IIUC, it's Lepton EDA 1.9.16 installed from the official
Ubuntu ("Impish Indri", 21.10) repository, right?

Try to delete Guile cache directory: ~/.cache/guile/

[DavidAustin]

Thanks for that suggestion. Unfortunately, it didn't help I get a bit more compiling but same file error.

[vzh]

This message:

;;; In procedure dynamic-link: file: "libglib-2.0", message: "file not found"

suggests that the canonical library for libglib has not been found. It's a known issue for 1.9.16 on Debian (#999699) and its derivatives. The workaround for this version is to install corresponding *-dev packages for missing libs. In this case those are libglib2.0-dev and libgtk2.0-dev (libgtk-3-dev for GTK3 version, though it should not be the case on Ubuntu).
Another workaround is to download and install a newer lepton-eda package directly from the Debian repository. The issue should be fixed there in 1.9.16-2 or 1.9.16-3.

[DavidAustin]

Thanks - that did the trick.

[graahnul-grom]

@DavidAustin Great!
@vzh I think we should add this info to our Ubuntu wiki page.

[vzh]

Done, thanks.

[graahnul-grom]

@vzh Thank you.