Re: [Gtk2hs-devel] trying to install happindicator fails

[Andrew M. <an...@am...>]

On 29/08/12 09:04, Anthropornis Nordenskjoldi wrote:
> Hello, I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, and when trying to install
> happindicator to try to the indicator example[1] on the Ubuntu App
> Developer site, I get the following output:
>
> $ cabal install happindicator
> Resolving dependencies...
>
> /tmp/happindicator-0.0.4-2272/happindicator-0.0.4/Gtk2HsSetup.hs:25:2:
>       warning: #warning Setup.hs is guessing the version of Cabal. If
> compilation of Setup.hs fails use -DCABAL_VERSION_MINOR=x for Cabal
> version 1.x.0 when building (prefixed by --ghc-option= when using the
> 'cabal' command) [-Wcpp]
> [1 of 2] Compiling Gtk2HsSetup      (
> /tmp/happindicator-0.0.4-2272/happindicator-0.0.4/Gtk2HsSetup.hs,
> /tmp/happindicator-0.0.4-2272/happindicator-0.0.4/dist/setup/Gtk2HsSetup.o )
> [2 of 2] Compiling Main             (
> /tmp/happindicator-0.0.4-2272/happindicator-0.0.4/Setup.hs,
> /tmp/happindicator-0.0.4-2272/happindicator-0.0.4/dist/setup/Main.o )
> Linking
> /tmp/happindicator-0.0.4-2272/happindicator-0.0.4/dist/setup/setup ...
> Configuring happindicator-0.0.4...
> setup: The pkg-config package appindicator-0.1 is required but it could
> not be
> found.
> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> happindicator-0.0.4 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
> ExitFailure 1
>
>
> I wasn't sure if it was looking for an Ubuntu repo package, but the only
> thing I see in the repo with a similar name is gir1.2-appindicator-0.1.
> Is there anything I can do to make this work? Thanks!

I think you probably don't have libappindicator-dev installed, and so 
the pkgconfig check is failing.

It should be in Ubuntu:

andrew@mutate:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS \n \l

andrew@mutate:~$ apt-cache show libappindicator-dev
Package: libappindicator-dev
Priority: optional
Section: libdevel
Installed-Size: 155
Maintainer: Ubuntu Desktop Team <ubu...@li...>
Architecture: amd64
Source: libappindicator
Version: 0.4.92-0ubuntu1
Depends: libdbusmenu-glib-dev (>= 0.1.8), libdbus-glib-1-dev (>= 0.76), 
libappindicator1 (= 0.4.92-0ubuntu1)
Filename: 
pool/main/liba/libappindicator/libappindicator-dev_0.4.92-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 11434
MD5sum: 49686a8269e3f8800223fcc145c191c4
SHA1: 6c942a4f9992606b6ea6b139587cbca6526e5966
SHA256: a215b7e4c3b6ab1f5e7ed656b243d12539d5e9dafbf494c4651599b5830b98f2
Description-en: Application Indicators
  A library and indicator to take menus from applications and place them in
  the panel.
  .
  This package contains files that are needed to build applications.
Homepage: https://launchpad.net/libappindicator
Description-md5: 8892169afb7b9bc499e71c9594bafe1b
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 18m

Best wishes,
Andrew