Debian Build Works (with hints for rank amateurs like me)

[ghost]

This probably doesn't belong here, but on the build instructions page, you asked for confirmation of whether the build instructions work on Debian. They do on the current stable (10.6).

"Notes for Ubuntu

Supported Versions: 18.04, 20.04 Unsupported Versions: 16.04

Required packages
    qt5-default
    qt5-qmake
    qtmultimedia5-dev
    libqt5svg5-dev
    libssl-dev
    make
    g++

These notes are probably also correct for Debian (someone please verify)"

Verified. Install all of the above packages.

As root:

clone the repo: "git clone https://github.com/MasterQ32/kristall.git"

Enter the directory

Enter the commands "make" and then "make install"

As user:

start the program by typing "kristall"

It does create a .desktop file, but I'm not seeing the item in my menu, so I'll have to have a look at it later.

Edit: move the Kristall.desktop file from /usr/local/share/applications to /home/yourusername/.local/share/applications and as root enter: chown yourusername Kristall.desktop

[ragnar76]

I can verify it. works like a charm but instead of doing it all as root, it works very well as a regular user:

sudo apt -y install qt5-default qt5-qmake qtmultimedia5-dev libqt5svg5-dev libssl-dev make g++
git clone https://github.com/MasterQ32/kristall.git
make -j16       # -j depends on your cpu, mine is a Ryzen 7 so i can run 16 jobs at a time
make install    # sudo should have cached your password

[ikskuh]

Thanks you two! I'll incorporate that info into the building docs when i find the time :)

[ghost]

Today I have installed Kristall on Raspberry Pi 400 running Raspbian 10 (buster)

Not only qt5 were missing but also libssl-dev

This is how I have installed Kristall:

git clone https://github.com/MasterQ32/kristall.git
cd kristall
sudo apt-get install qt5-default qtmultimedia5-dev libqt5svg5-dev libssl-dev
make
sudo make install

It went well. The only one thing that is not right are missing icons to change colours in Settings ➠ Style (to the right from Background Color, Standard Font etc.). I've got a screenshot.

Earlier I tried instructions from Peter, but it was a bit messy (I had to move Kristall.desktop between folders, edit it, then app icon was missing).

I hope it helps. :)

[ikskuh]

@przsak can you test if the icons are now visible?

[ghost]

No, it didn't help unfortunately.
Now icons with "a" to change fonts are missing too.
screenshot

[krkk]

Uh that's not good. What icon theme are you using?

[ghost]

I use default PiXflat, but changing to other themes doesn't make difference.

[krkk]

I've looked at the source code of PiXflat a bit and it looks like it has about 60 unique action icons and none of them fits well for those buttons, so I don't think we can do much about it.

On the other hand, #215 adds alt texts for the buttons, so you should know what button does what. You can also change the UI Theme in Kristall to Dark or White to use the built-in icons.

[mYnDstrEAm]

On Debian11/KDE I had to
sudo apt -y install qtmultimedia5-dev qttools5-dev-tools ("'qt5-default' has no installation candidate" and all the other packages were already installed)
and allow port 1965 in the nftables firewall (if enabled):

(in chain INPUT:) tcp sport 1965 counter packets 0 bytes 0 accept
(in chain OUTPUT:) tcp dport 1965 counter packets 0 bytes 0 accept

Icons are shown under Settings->Style (the color-picker on the right of Background Color etc), the application icon is there too (except for the Settings window in KDE's bottom traybar).

However there is no icon for application in the .desktop application (e.g. when searching for it or when added to the Favorites panel) even though the .desktop file under /usr/local/share/applications has the icon set. This could be an unrelated problem - something similar (same thing except that the .desktop file also doesn't have an icon) happened with the Nuclear music player (nukeop/nuclear#374) Running kbuildsycoca5 didn't solve this. However the console output of that has:

kf.service.sycoca: Service type not found: "text/x-kristall-theme"
kf.service.sycoca: Service type not found: "text/gemini"

[casperl]

Edit: I am going to elevate this to a formal issue: Icons not visible to the left of the URL bar.

@przsak can you test if the icons are now visible?

On Ubuntu 20.04 using QT + i3 Window Manager, I cloned the current kristall repo from github today and issued a make command as a regular user which created a kristall binary. The missing or not displayed icon issue remains the same with all the icons to the left of the URL bar not being displayed while those on the right side of the URL are displayed. I feel the position of the icons might be relevant to the issue.

This same issue persists in an appimage nightly build I found somewhere on the Internet.

Could it also be related to a missing icon or system font on the system?