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$ guake: [ERROR] Unable to start Guake, missing mandatory dependency: Vte #57494

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dubiouscript opened this issue Mar 12, 2019 · 5 comments
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$ guake: [ERROR] Unable to start Guake, missing mandatory dependency: Vte #57494

dubiouscript opened this issue Mar 12, 2019 · 5 comments
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6.topic: GNOME GNOME desktop environment and its underlying platform 6.topic: python

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dubiouscript commented Mar 12, 2019 •
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Issue description

non nixos nixpkgs guake

as in the title : Unable to start Guake, missing mandatory dependency: Vte

Steps to reproduce

$ nix-env -iA nixpkgs.guake 
installing 'guake-3.4.0'
these paths will be fetched (50.98 MiB download, 236.29 MiB unpacked):
......
$ guake 
[ERROR] Unable to start Guake, missing mandatory dependency: Vte >= 0.42

$ nix-env -iA nixpkgs.vte
installing 'vte-0.54.3' 
these paths will be fetched (9.98 MiB download, 37.79 MiB unpacked):

$ guake 
[ERROR] Unable to start Guake, missing mandatory dependency: Vte >= 0.42

WTF ??
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+guake
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hedning commented Mar 12, 2019

See #56943 for the cause. Putting gobject-introspection in buildInput should fix it for now.

@hedning hedning added 6.topic: python 6.topic: GNOME GNOME desktop environment and its underlying platform labels Mar 12, 2019
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0.o
thanks! for the info !!

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jtojnar commented Mar 12, 2019

Yeah, this is duplicate of #56943.

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dubiouscript commented Mar 13, 2019 •
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hi!
@hedning @jtojnar

any idea

  • how to apply this so guake works ?
    or tips on
  • how to find an old working version ??

thanks

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jtojnar commented Mar 13, 2019

Add strictDeps = false; to the package with a comment linking to #56943

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