Cannot Install My Weather Indicator

system001 · 06-17-2019, 07:55 AM

good day,

i'm having an issue getting my weather indicator to install on kubuntu 19.04 disco dingo. i keep getting the following. any help and or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thanks

Code:

sudo apt-get install my-weather-indicator
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
my-weather-indicator : Depends: gir1.2-webkit-3.0 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/...-ubuntu-16-04/

https://github.com/atareao/my-weathe...ator/issues/58

business_kid · 06-18-2019, 04:39 AM

That's plain enough.
/Note to self: have nothing to do with anything called 'disco dingo.'

You haven't got that dependency. Do clever stuff with apt, autoremove, etc. Do an update and a dist-upgrade.

Then try installing the dependency. If that goes in, try the weather kit again.

system001 · 06-18-2019, 06:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by business_kid

That's plain enough.
/Note to self: have nothing to do with anything called 'disco dingo.'

You haven't got that dependency. Do clever stuff with apt, autoremove, etc. Do an update and a dist-upgrade.

Then try installing the dependency. If that goes in, try the weather kit again.

never said it had ANYTHING to do directly with the os, now i have tried to download and install the gir1.2-webkit-3.0 without any luck after i could not find it in synaptic. hence the thread. please any real suggestions for addressing the issue? thanks

Mike_Walsh · 06-18-2019, 06:50 AM

I think you'll find that was a 'real' suggestion. Quite simply, the dependency you need isn't in the repositories for 'Disco Dingo'.

The suggested steps ought to help somewhat. No guarantees, but they should help.

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If that doesn't work, you could always try this:-

https://ubuntu.pkgs.org/18.10/ubuntu...amd64.deb.html

It's the download page for that particular dependency from the previous release, Cosmic Cuttlefish, over at pkgs.org. I'm assuming you're 64-bit with this, yes?

The download is further down that page. You can install this directly, by clicking on the .deb, but I'd advise installing it via gDebi. You can get gDebi from the repos:-

Code:

sudo apt-get install gdebi

gDebi just seems to handle dependencies of .deb packages better than anything else.

This is the 'manual' way we often resort to in 'Puppy' Linux, and is the one thing that always astounds me about the package management system in mainstream distros. The package you very often need is available, quite freely, in another repo somewhere.....but because it's not an 'official' repo, use of such is frowned upon. The system won't let you use something from a foreign repository, because that's not kosher!

Give it a try. Can't hurt. It may not be the 'officially approved' way of doing things, but it'll get you what you want. Of course, you may end up going on a 'lib-chase', as further dependencies are uncovered.....but pkgs.org is a very good resource for all this.

(If it's a weather app you're after, you could do worse than to give this a try:-

https://jackd248.github.io/temps/

'Temps' - an Electron-based weather app, that looks very like a mobile phone app. It works very, very well, though; I've been using it for a couple of years now.)

It's a single binary, which you can run from literally anywhere.....

Mike.

system001 · 06-18-2019, 07:11 AM

alright i took your suggestion on gdebi and still nothing from the looks of it. going to try to install my weather indicator again to see if your suggestion did install wed kit. thanks

thanks for the app suggestion, but looking to avoid git if possible.

system001 · 06-18-2019, 07:34 AM

i'm our of ideas gi1.2 must just not like 19.04 or kubuntu itself. manually installed every other file synaptic said my weather indicator needs including a slightly older version of gir1.2 2.4 instead of 3.0 and when i try mwi after installing those files i still get the below even though i've done what's suggested to install it.

Code:

my-weather-indicator:
 Depends: gir1.2-webkit-3.0  but it is not installable

business_kid · 06-19-2019, 06:32 AM

You have the option [Shock, horror) to manually compile things if you're familiar with that. You download the source, and it's usually configure, make, & make install with maybe a few options. Best to put it in /usr/local, so you can get rid opf it when the time comes. Good also to do a backup before, so if it goes pear-shaped, you can sort yourself out. The distro will hate you for this but if you're a weatherman, sailor or something and need this, you could try it.

system001 · 06-19-2019, 07:31 AM

@Mike_Walsh any way to force install gir1.2-webkit-3.0 that my weather indicator insist on, and any idea why in the bleep bleep would any os builder block installing a file that installs just fine in an older version of the os? meaning i have my weather indicator working perfectly in kde neon, which means gir1.2-webkit-3.0 has to be in kde neon which is buit on ubuntu 18.10 yet is not in kubuntu based on 19.04, but will install gir1.2-webkit-2.4 without issue.