I’m having trouble finding libappindicator binaries for OpenSUSE 42.3
Where should I get the rpm - or what repository should I add ?
Thanks !!
Post:
zypper se -s libappin
Hi
They are present?
zypper se appindicator
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Summary | Type
--+-------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+--------
| NetworkManager-appindicator | GNOME applications for use with NetworkManager | package
| libappindicator-devel | Development files for libappindicator | package
| libappindicator-doc | Documentation for libappindicator and libappindicator3 | package
| libappindicator1 | Application indicators library | package
| libappindicator3-1 | Application indicators library -- GTK+ 3 | package
| libappindicator3-devel | Development files for libappindicator3 | package
| perl-Gtk2-AppIndicator | Perl interface to the libappindicator | package
| python-appindicator | Python 2 bindings for libappindicator | package
| typelib-1_0-AppIndicator-0_1 | Application indicators library | package
| typelib-1_0-AppIndicator3-0_1 | Application indicators library | package
zypper if libappindicator1
Information for package libappindicator1:
-----------------------------------------
Repository : openSUSE-Leap-42.3-0
Name : libappindicator1
Version : 12.10.1+bzr20141110-7.3
Arch : x86_64
Vendor : openSUSE
Installed Size : 84.6 KiB
Installed : No
Status : not installed
Source package : libappindicator-12.10.1+bzr20141110-7.3.src
Summary : Application indicators library
Description :
A library to allow applications to export a menu into the Unity Menu bar. Based
on KSNI it also works in KDE and will fallback to generic Systray support if
none of those are available.
You might also need the typelib if you run lld against the binary, it should tell you what’s not found.
FYI -
I wrote the following as a guide/reference for people to use for finding dependencies and other files…
https://en.opensuse.org/User:Tsu2/Missing_Files_Dependencies
TSU
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 15:46:04 +0000, qawtbh wrote:
> I’m having trouble finding libappindicator binaries for OpenSUSE 42.3
> Where should I get the rpm - or what repository should I add ? Thanks !!
FWIW, I installed Slack here and got the same warning - I installed
libappindicator1 and libappindicator3-1, and it still complained that the
dependencies were missing (the RPM is a Fedora package IIRC), so I just
installed and told it to ignore the missing dependencies. Seems to work
OK anyways.
Jim
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On Tue 18 Dec 2018 12:51:46 AM CST, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 15:46:04 +0000, qawtbh wrote:
> I’m having trouble finding libappindicator binaries for OpenSUSE 42.3
> Where should I get the rpm - or what repository should I add ?
> Thanks !!
FWIW, I installed Slack here and got the same warning - I installed
libappindicator1 and libappindicator3-1, and it still complained that
the dependencies were missing (the RPM is a Fedora package IIRC), so I
just installed and told it to ignore the missing dependencies. Seems
to work OK anyways.
Jim
Hi
Only libappindicator3 here, never installed the rpm, just extracted and
ran as my user, started up fine with installed libs… 
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I installed with no dependencies and will test. Thanks for all the feedback.
**rpm -i --nodeps slack-3.3.3-0.1.fc21.x86_64.rpm **
According to
https://launchpad.net/libappindicator
Suggests that if it’s not installed, you won’t have a notification icon in your menu bar, at least if you’re running KDE (I assume no one is running the Unity Desktop on openSUSE). Don’t know if the same would happen in other Desktops.
For those who believe that notifications are a critical real time feature of Slack, this might be a significant issue, assuming that notifications may not display without this widget (or whatever you want to call it).
I’d say this is a significant bug to submit to Slack, especially since it’s a mostly paid product (seems to be free for FOSS and individuals) for business use. I did a quick look around to see if there is a public Slack project but I couldn’t tell which results might be related to the Slack app and which might be extensions of Slack except a couple that are almost certainly related to the Dashboard and wouldn’t have any notification functionality.
TSU
Thanks again
Slack seems to work OK, but as expected - notifications are not seen.
Not a showstopper for me.
On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 05:06:03 +0000, tsu2 wrote:
> Suggests that if it’s not installed, you won’t have a notification icon
> in your menu bar, at least if you’re running KDE (I assume no one is
> running the Unity Desktop on openSUSE). Don’t know if the same would
> happen in other Desktops.
FWIW, with my installation, I do get the notification bar icon in GNOME.
So it seems it’s just the way it’s coded in the RPM isn’t finding the
library, but the app does.
Jim
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I think its only a naming problem between Fedora and openSUSE, libappindicator ---- libappindicator1.
So install in openSUSE libappindicator1 and libappindicator3-1.
How to build your own rpm wrapper:
# create libappindicator-gtk3.spec
Name: libappindicator-gtk3
Version: 12.10
Release: lp151.4.2
Group: System/Libraries
License: LGPL-2.0 AND LGPL-3.0 AND GPL-3.0
Vendor: openSUSE
URL: https://launchpad.net/libappindicator
Summary: Application indicators library for GTK+3
Requires: libappindicator3-1 > 12.10
%description
A library to allow applications to export a menu into the Unity Menu bar. Based
on KSNI it also works in KDE and will fallback to generic Systray support if
none of those are available.
This package contains the GTK+ 3 version of this library.
%prep
exit 0
%build
exit 0
%install
%__mkdir_p %buildroot%_defaultdocdir/%name
echo "see /usr/share/doc/packages/libappindicator3-1/README" \
> %buildroot%_defaultdocdir/%name/README
%clean
exit 0
%files
%defattr(-,root,root)
%_defaultdocdir/%name/README
zypper install -y rpm-build
rpmbuild -ba libappindicator-gtk3.spec
sudo zypper install /my/own/rpm/RPMS/x86_64/libappindicator-gtk3-12.10-lp151.4.2.x86_64.rpm
sudo zypper ar https://packagecloud.io/slacktechnologies/slack/fedora/21/x86_64 slack
sudo zypper update slack