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I am not sure where to ask this, but given I followed the qtile.org troubleshooting tips I think it must be something related to the Slackware.
I tried installing qtile and its dependencies using the pip3 commands (I tried pip as well). I get no errors or flags during the install. However when I try "qtile start" I get the attached errors.
I subsequently tried building using sbopkg and it fails to build qtile as well.
I have recreated this on a clean install in a VM. So it has happened on my laptop and a VM.
installing stuff with pip as super user doesn't always play nice with the other python packages in the system.
Try instead using the official slackbuild for qtile
Sorry didn't notice the bit about sbopkg in your post.
It would be better if you show us the slack build error, these should be guaranteed to work in a standard 15.0 installation. If it's failing then it's a problem
I am not sure where to ask this, but given I followed the qtile.org troubleshooting tips I think it must be something related to the Slackware.
I tried installing qtile and its dependencies using the pip3 commands (I tried pip as well). I get no errors or flags during the install. However when I try "qtile start" I get the attached errors.
I subsequently tried building using sbopkg and it fails to build qtile as well.
I have recreated this on a clean install in a VM. So it has happened on my laptop and a VM.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Yep, Qtile is a dependencies nightmare, but qtile-git seems to work.
Code:
git clone https://github.com/qtile/qtile.git
cd qtile
pip install .
Looks like the latest version of qtile doesn't like the newer versions of python3-xcffib or python3-cairocffi. Also, python3-xcffib needs to be installed before python3-cairocffi is built.
It does work with these versions.
xcffib 1.3.0
cairocffi 1.5.1 (also needs python3-setuptools-opt)
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