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duvholt / i3-pager

Plasmoid pager for integrating i3 with KDE Plasma
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Cannot successfully install #3

Closed alecvn closed 4 years ago

alecvn commented 4 years ago

Hi

I'm having trouble installing this package on Ubuntu 18.04. There were several Qt development packages that needed to be installed first, and after that, this command cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$(kf5-config --prefix) -B build . still fails because of some complication with the nested repo i3ipc++.

Any chance the installation instructions needs an update?

duvholt commented 4 years ago

The installation instructions aren't very complete unfortunately. One potential source of error is that you didn't clone the project with submodules. This can be done be either adding --recurse-submodules to git clone or by running git submodule update --init --recursive in an already cloned project. I'll add this to the readme as it's not exactly obvious. If that doesn't fix it it would be very helpful if you pasted the error output you get while compiling.

I don't use Ubuntu so I'm not sure exactly which packages are required so if you happen to have a list I can add that to the readme as well.

alecvn commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the quick response, I will try the recursive clone tonight and compile the requirements I had to install that weren't mentioned in the install instructions.

duvholt commented 4 years ago

Readme has been updated with the recurse submodules option thanks to @SimonBrandner