Installation does not work for read-only systemfs distro due to missing dependency (Endless OS, possibly Silverblue and others)

bayazidbh commented 2 years ago

Currently testing with Endless OS. I got an error due to inability to install dependencies. I'll include the log below, but would it be possible to either use a simpler script or create a simple nested ".themes" and ".icons" .zip so that we could simple just extract it at $HOME ? I've manually copy-pasted things to .themes and .icons, though I'm not sure if I'm using the right folders, but for the most part it works with gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme WhiteSur-dark-solid and set icon-theme.

I would rather not waste bandwidth and disk space just to use Toolbox to install the themes, and I'm not sure if that'll even work in the first place.

$ ./install.sh
  Oops! Operation failed...

  =========== ERROR LOG ===========
  >>> W: Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend
  >>> W: Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock
  >>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
  >>> W: Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend
  >>> W: Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock
  >>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

  =========== ERROR INFO ==========
  FOUND  :
    >>> install.sh
    >>> lib-core.sh
    >>> lib-install.sh
  SNIPPET:
    >>> apt install -y sassc libglib2.0-dev-bin libxml2-utils
  TRACE  :
    >>> signal_error
    >>> prepare_install_apt_packages
    >>> install_dialog_deps
    >>> show_panel_opacity_dialog
    >>> show_needed_dialogs
    >>> main

  =========== SYSTEM INFO =========
  DISTRO : ubuntu debian;endless;211122-034749;4.0.0
  SUDO   : no
  GNOME  : old
  REPO   : 2021-11-30T15:50:07+0700

  HINT: Try install depends to fix this: sudo apt install sassc libglib2.0-dev-bin libxml2-utils

$ uname -a

Linux endless 5.11.0-35-generic #37+dev47.2921aabbeos4.0.2 SMP Fri Sep 17 03:48:27 UTC 2021 x86_64 GNU/Linux

vinceliuice commented 2 years ago

You mean this: https://github.com/vinceliuice/WhiteSur-gtk-theme/tree/master/release ?

stormbeforesunsetbee commented 2 years ago

Yeah, Endless OS, GNOME OS, and such is kinda tricky to handle. Have you managed to install it manually, anyway?

bayazidbh commented 2 years ago

@vinceliuice Yeah, I did that after looking around at the cloned git folder. Extracted WhiteSur-dark-solid-3-38. Though I wasn't sure if I installed it correctly as some things didn't look right and it didn't get applied to Settings and Nautilus.

@rivanfebrian123 In the end I just temporarily created a Toolbox container to run the script, before deleting it after that. At the same time, I also installed gnome-tweaks via the Toolbox before that, as well as manually installed user-themes extension (and gsconnect while I'm at it) which required a restart to get it picked up by the flatpak Gnome Extensions app. It was only after I did that, that I installed the theme. Works fine from my testing on Endless OS but definitely a hassle.

I think the installation instruction could at least be updated to account for read-only systems like Endless, Silverblue, and, soon, SteamOS (though at least that one has a Dev Mode unlock and Silverblue/Kinoite has rpm-ostree to install things). And ideally, we could get a proper flathub / flathub-beta release for both the GTK theme and the Qt theme (though apparently recently Kvantum was released for Flatpak as well? Not sure how that one works yet).

stormbeforesunsetbee commented 2 years ago

Well, to be honest, I have no proper knowledge about containerized OS like Endless. Can you teach me how to install this theme on Endless (and the other containerized OSes), so me or @vinceliuice can implement the installer for you?

bayazidbh commented 2 years ago

@rivanfebrian123 well at first I tried to follow this guide after unzipping the gnome3.38 dark-solid folder to .themes, but it didn't work right - the settings app, for example, remained the default theme.

In the end, just to make sure that all the themes and tweaks are placed correctly, I had to use Toolbox:

$ toolbox create
$ toolbox enter {container-name}
$ ./WhiteSur-gtk-theme/install.sh

After which it requires a full update of the container image used to create the toolbox container. But after that, the themes seems fine.

As the fail message said above, the problem was that Endless don't have sassc libglib2.0-dev-bin libxml2-utils as well as dialog pre-installed. The script tried to apt install it anyways but it naturally fails because the system's root is read-only. Once it fails, it just exits with the above message.

If we don't want to make user of the theme have to install a toolbox container (which requires downloading a 500MB container image), then I would say that if the script detect it fails installing dependencies, it'll default to using standard tools like unzip, mv or cp, cat or tee, and gsettings.

vinceliuice commented 2 years ago

Some app don't use the theme, it's not because it install fails, maybe it's a flatpak/snap app

bayazidbh commented 2 years ago

I know about that - and for the most part, flatpak theming is fine if I copy-paste the gtk-3.0 (and sometimes gtk-2.0 or gtk-4.0) folders to their ~/.var/app/ config folders. So it was actually easier to figure out how to make it work with Flatpak apps since I know what to do.

The Settings I'm pretty sure is a system app. And it does work fine with non-Flatpak apps I install it using a toolbox container. It's not a problem of the theme not working, it's just that the installer looks for packages that aren't there, and naturally can't be installed because system is read-only, then it just exits. So that leaves manually copying everything, or using toolbox.

I haven't tested with putting the theme in ~/.config though, since most guides says to put themes in ~/.themes which from my understanding seems what gsettings read for themes (and gnome-tweaks-tool? which also isn't installed, and not available as flatpak). Not sure how to do all the other tweaks from command line, which is why I just gave up and used toolbox.

vinceliuice commented 2 years ago

If the system is read-only, then I also don't know how to do with that

bayazidbh commented 2 years ago

/home is writeable, as does several other folders like /var/ for flatpak. The installer managed to delete the theme just fine. It just cannot proceed to install the theme because apt couldn't install the dependencies wanted.

Here is me running the installer script again after a successful install using toolbox:

fenglengshun@endless:~$ ./WhiteSur-gtk-theme/install.sh
  [1;33mRemoving the old 'WhiteSur' themes... 
[0m

  [1;36mInstalling 'WhiteSur' themes in '/sysroot/home/bayazidbh/.themes'...[0m
  [1;36m--->>> GTK | GNOME Shell | Cinnamon | Metacity | XFWM | Plank <<<---[0m
  [1;36mColor variants   : dark;light[0m
  [1;36mTheme variants   : default[0m
  [1;36mOpacity variants : normal;solid[0m
  [1;36mAlt variants     : normal[0m
  [1;36mIcon variant     : standard[0m
  [1;36mNautilus variant : stable[0m

  [1;33mDEPS: 'glib2.0', 'sassc', and 'xmllint' are required for theme installation.[0m
  [1;36mDEPS: Checking your internet connection...[0m
  [1;33mExecuting 'apt update -y...' as root[0m
[1;35m Authentication is required[0m [1;32m(Please input your password):[0m
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  [1;33mExecuting 'apt install -y sassc libglib2.0-dev...' as root[0m
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The following additional packages will be installed:
  libsass1
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libglib2.0-dev-bin libsass1 libxml2-utils sassc
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dpkg: error: unable to access the dpkg database directory /var/lib/dpkg: Read-only file system
[H[2J[3J  [1;31m

  Oops! Operation failed...
[0m
  [1;31m=========== ERROR LOG ===========[0m
[1;31m  >>> 
[1;31m  >>> WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
[1;31m  >>> 
[1;31m  >>> 
[1;31m  >>> WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
[1;31m  >>> 
[1;31m  >>> W: Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend
[1;31m  >>> W: Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock
[1;31m  >>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
[1;31m  >>> 
[1;31m  >>> WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
[1;31m  >>> 
[1;31m  >>> 
[1;31m  >>> WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
[1;31m  >>> 
[1;31m  >>> 
[1;31m  >>> WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
[1;31m  >>> 
[1;31m  >>> W: Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend
[1;31m  >>> W: Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock
[1;31m  >>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
  [1;31m
  =========== ERROR INFO ==========[0m
  [1;31mFOUND  :[0m
  [1;31m  >>> install.sh[0m
  [1;31m  >>> lib-core.sh[0m
  [1;31m  >>> lib-install.sh[0m
  [1;31mSNIPPET:
    >>> apt install -y sassc libglib2.0-dev-bin libxml2-utils[0m
  [1;31mTRACE  :[0m
  [1;31m  >>> signal_error[0m
  [1;31m  >>> prepare_install_apt_packages[0m
  [1;31m  >>> install_theme_deps[0m
  [1;31m  >>> install_themes[0m
  [1;31m  >>> main[0m
  [1;31m
  =========== SYSTEM INFO =========[0m
  [1;31mDISTRO : ubuntu debian;endless;211122-034749;4.0.0[0m
  [1;31mSUDO   : no[0m
  [1;31mGNOME  : old[0m
  [1;31mREPO   : 2021-11-30T15:50:07+0700
[0m
  [1;36mHINT: Try install depends to fix this: sudo apt install sassc libglib2.0-dev-bin libxml2-utils
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  [1;36mHINT: You can google or report to us the info above
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  [1;36mhttps://github.com/vinceliuice/WhiteSur-gtk-theme/issues

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bayazidbh@endless:~$ toolbox create
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Download registry.fedoraproject.org/f32/fedora-toolbox:32 (500MB)? [y/N]: y
Created container: fedora-toolbox-32
Enter with: toolbox enter
bayazidbh@endless:~$ toolbox enter fedora-toolbox-32
bayazidbh@toolbox:~$ ./WhiteSur-gtk-theme/install.sh -c dark -o normal

  Removing the old 'WhiteSur' themes... 

  Installing 'WhiteSur' themes in '/sysroot/home/bayazidbh/.themes'...
  --->>> GTK | GNOME Shell | Cinnamon | Metacity | XFWM | Plank <<<---
  Color variants   : dark
  Theme variants   : default
  Opacity variants : normal
  Alt variants     : normal
  Icon variant     : standard
  Nautilus variant : stable

  DEPS: 'glib2.0', 'sassc', and 'xmllint' are required for theme installation.
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Upgraded:
  pcre2-10.36-4.fc32.x86_64                                         pcre2-syntax-10.36-4.fc32.noarch                                        

Installed:
  glib2-devel-2.64.6-1.fc32.x86_64 libblkid-devel-2.35.2-1.fc32.x86_64 libffi-devel-3.1-24.fc32.x86_64  libmount-devel-2.35.2-1.fc32.x86_64
  libsass-3.6.3-2.fc32.x86_64      libselinux-devel-3.0-5.fc32.x86_64  libsepol-devel-3.0-4.fc32.x86_64 pcre-cpp-8.44-2.fc32.x86_64        
  pcre-devel-8.44-2.fc32.x86_64    pcre-utf16-8.44-2.fc32.x86_64       pcre-utf32-8.44-2.fc32.x86_64    pcre2-devel-10.36-4.fc32.x86_64    
  pcre2-utf16-10.36-4.fc32.x86_64  pcre2-utf32-10.36-4.fc32.x86_64     sassc-3.6.1-3.fc32.x86_64        zlib-devel-1.2.11-21.fc32.x86_64   

Complete!
                             ••••
  Done!

  Run './WhiteSur-gtk-theme/install.sh --help' to explore more customization features!

(the theme works just fine even after deleting the toolbox and rebooting)

My take on it is that, in case it fails installing, it should have a failback mode using standard utils. A manual install seems to be possible if you know where to put things in and what commands to use.

Or, as a stop-gap, if the package install fails, say something like "You might be running on a read-only system! Please install using toolbox!" or something like that. It isn't ideal, because installing 500MB container just for a theme is absurd, but at least something to let users know of an alternative.

I personally think it's just a matter of time before we see an official immutable remix officially from Ubuntu (if there isn't one already), and overall it's just on the rise in general, so I think it's a scenario that should be covered. But this isn't my project - so I'll leave the decision to you.

stormbeforesunsetbee commented 2 years ago

Thanks for your feedback!

vinceliuice / WhiteSur-gtk-theme

Installation does not work for read-only systemfs distro due to missing dependency (Endless OS, possibly Silverblue and others) #500