Component metadata refers to a non-existing .desktop file.

[dridk]

I m running on Linux 4.4 , kubuntu 16.04 And Qt 5.7 I have an error during the validation of metadata.. I just run the following line :

 linuxdeployqt FastQt -appimage -no-strip

I get a first error which say me to rename application name in default.appdata.xml. After doing this, I ran it again :

Here is my error :

build-FastQt-Desktop_Qt_5_7_0_GCC_64bit-Release linuxdeployqt FastQt -appimage -no-strip      
"/usr/local/bin/usr/bin:/home/sacha/Linux_data/Qt/5.7/gcc_64/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/home/sacha/Bioinfo/apps/bin:/home/sacha/miniconda3/bin"
app-binary: "FastQt"
WARNING: "./qt.conf" already exists, will not overwrite.
WARNING: To make sure the plugins are loaded from the correct location,
WARNING: please make sure qt.conf contains the following lines:
WARNING: [Paths]
WARNING:   Plugins = plugins
Desktop file: /media/sacha/Linux_data/dev/build-FastQt-Desktop_Qt_5_7_0_GCC_64bit-Release/default.desktop
Name: Application
Icon: default
Exec: AppRun %F
Comment: Edit this default file
Type: Application
Categories entry not found in desktop file
Categories: (null)
File used for determining architecture: /media/sacha/Linux_data/dev/build-FastQt-Desktop_Qt_5_7_0_GCC_64bit-Release/lib/libQt5Gui.so.5
Arch: 86_64
App name for filename: Application
dest_path: Application-x86_64.AppImage
DESTINATION not specified, so assuming Application-x86_64.AppImage
/media/sacha/Linux_data/dev/build-FastQt-Desktop_Qt_5_7_0_GCC_64bit-Release should be packaged as Application-x86_64.AppImage
AppStream upstream metadata found in usr/share/metainfo/default.appdata.xml
E - default.appdata.xml:default.desktop
    Component metadata refers to a non-existing .desktop file.

Validation failed.
Failed to validate AppStream information with appstreamcli

Here is the metafile :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<component type="desktop">
  <id>default.desktop</id>
  <name>FastQt</name>
  <summary>Analyser of genomics FastQ file</summary>
  <developer_name>XXX: Insert Company or Developer Name</developer_name>
  <description>
  <p>
        tesr zjsdlf sdjf lisdfj slkfj flizae jfsldfj sd
sdlkfjsd lfksdj fsd zelr jsdlkf sjdf 
selkfjsd flksdfj eazr sdf sdf   
</p>
  <p>
   This should a second paragraph.
  </p>
</description>
  <metadata_license>XXX: Insert SPDX value here</metadata_license>
  <project_license>XXX: Insert SPDX value here</project_license>
  <url type="bugtracker">XXX: http://www.homepage.com/where-to-report_bug.html</url>
  <url type="donation">XXX: http://www.homepage.com/donation.html</url>
  <url type="faq">XXX: http://www.homepage.com/faq.html</url>
  <url type="help">XXX: http://www.homepage.com/docs/</url>
  <url type="homepage">XXX: http://www.homepage.com/</url>
  <screenshots>
    <screenshot type="default">
      <caption>XXX: Describe another screenshot</caption>
      <image height="630" width="1120">XXX: http://www.my-screenshot.png</image>
    </screenshot>
    <screenshot>
      <caption>XXX: Describe the default screenshot</caption>
      <image height="630" width="1120">XXX: http://www.my-screenshot-default.png</image>
    </screenshot>
  </screenshots>
</component>

[probonopd]

Assuming your application is called FastQt, you should create a fastqt.desktop file (e.g., rename and edit the default.desktop file that linuxdeployqt generates as an example). Then, you should have an usr/share/metainfo/fastqt.appdata.xml file which contains <id>fastqt.desktop</id>. As for the AppStream metafile itself, please consult https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Quickstart.html.

[dridk]

It doesn't work. Everything seems okay, but I keep this warning . Below is my shell record . With all set by default, it should works. But it doesn't . My default.desktop is here, but it seems it is looking somewhere else.

Record shell with asciinema

[probonopd]

Why is it saying

ERROR: Desktop file missing, creating a default one (you will probably want to edit it)
ERROR: Icon file missing, creating a default one (you will probably want to edit it)   

I don't see a fastqt.desktop but only a default.desktop (that gets autogenerated because fastqt.desktop is missing). Please rename default.desktop to fastqt.desktop.

[dridk]

I know that. But I assume with default files, it should generate a "default" application. If I rename like you said, I get the same error : See : https://asciinema.org/a/2uw6b7z4eaxtl2flxvh86gv80

[dridk]

But it's not relative to you..

    appimagetool .   

returns same error.. I have to find the clue from this side

[probonopd]

I spspect your directory layout may be wrong. Try running inside deploy/, the command linuxdeployqt fastqt/fastqt -appimage -no-strip and make sure the desktop file and metainfo are beneath the deploy/fastqt/ directory tree...

Would you be interested to enable Travis CI continuous builds for https://github.com/labsquare/fastQt?

[probonopd]

Also try supplying absolute paths to appimagetool.AppImage.

[probonopd]

Tried to compile fastQT, getting

-1: error: Unknown module(s) in QT: charts

[dridk]

It depends from Qt5.7 and QtCharts module

[dridk]

I success to make a package by ignoring verification. imagetool -n .