Migrate to the Ayatana (App)Indicator(s) for newer Debian versions about matebook-applet HOT 8 CLOSED

Ended up forking the dependency for now. Fixed in 3.0.0.

Thanks again for raising!

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Are you able to run the applet by downloading and running the precompiled binary instead? I don't have a Debian Testing installation, unfortunately, so I can't check whether the libayatana they are migrating to just works, or we need to do changes to the codebase.

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@nekr0z no, the same error

sudo dpkg -i matebook-applet_2.5.0_amd64.deb 
Selecting previously unselected package matebook-applet.
(Reading database ... 293827 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack matebook-applet_2.5.0_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking matebook-applet (2.5.0) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of matebook-applet:
 matebook-applet depends on libappindicator3-1; however:
  Package libappindicator3-1 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package matebook-applet (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 matebook-applet

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@akalinkin No, what I meant was to download a tar from the releases page, unpack it, and run ./matebook-applet.

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@nekr0z Oh, OK... But no

./matebook-applet         
./matebook-applet: error while loading shared libraries: libappindicator3.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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@akalinkin I see. Thanks for confirming that we have a real problem here.

I have raised an issue with our dependency, the getlantern/systray library (which in turn depends on libappindicator). If they are willing to address this, we'll just wait for the update. If they are not, we'll need to rewrite the systray part using some other library.

Just curious: does ./matebook-applet -w result in the same error?

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Yeah, thnx. I've checked getlantern/systray already. So they will face this issue too - it will be great if they will add support for libayatana.

Just curious: does ./matebook-applet -w result in the same error?

 alex@laptop:~/Downloads/matebook-applet-amd64-2.5.0 
❯ ./matebook-applet -w
./matebook-applet: error while loading shared libraries: libappindicator3.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I can't check whether the libayatana they are migrating to just works, or we need to do changes to the codebase

I found this https://wiki.debian.org/Ayatana/IndicatorsTransition so it looks like Debian development team try to migrate all packages

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Debian development team try to migrate all packages

matebook-applet is not in the official Debian repositories (because I can't be bothered to make the package adhere to Debian's standards, and no one else volunteered to be a Debian package maintainer yet), so we'll have to do this migration on our own.

I need to look into all this more, but it looks like libayatana-indicator is just a fork of libappindicator, so it shouldn't be too hard.

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