setup doesn't check dependencies (review of dependencies)

[maweki]

I don't know whether the setup.py should check dependencies. But I am currently trying to install gourmet in a basically empty docker (actually podman) container. It's a toolbox container that should allow you to install dev dependencies and stuff without cluttering your (possibly immutable) installation. I am doing all of this on fedora.

First it failed with:

running build_i18n
intltool-update -p -g gourmet
unable to execute 'intltool-update': No such file or directory
error: command 'intltool-update' failed with exit status 1

I fixed that with sudo dnf install intltool

Then I got many error messages sh: file: command not found which I fixed with sudo dnf install file. Then it worked. This might be a documentation issue but to get all the stuff built/installed from the requirements.txt I had to install all the following:

sudo dnf install cairo-devel gcc python3-devel gobject-introspection-devel cairo-gobject-devel

Then trying to run gourmet I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/maweki/.local/bin/gourmet", line 481, in <module>
    from gourmet import GourmetRecipeManager
  File "/home/maweki/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gourmet/GourmetRecipeManager.py", line 12, in <module>
    from gi.repository import Gtk
  File "/home/maweki/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gi/importer.py", line 132, in load_module
    raise ImportError('cannot import name %s, '
ImportError: cannot import name Gtk, introspection typelib not found

As it turns out, I still needed to install gtk3, which was a no-brainer sudo dnf install gtk3.

Then I got the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/maweki/.local/bin/gourmet", line 513, in <module>
    GourmetRecipeManager.startGUI()
  File "/home/maweki/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gourmet/GourmetRecipeManager.py", line 707, in startGUI
    r=RecGui(splash_label=splash.label)
  File "/home/maweki/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gourmet/GourmetRecipeManager.py", line 934, in __init__
    GourmetApplication.__init__(self, splash_label=splash_label)
  File "/home/maweki/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gourmet/GourmetRecipeManager.py", line 84, in __init__
    self.setup_prefs() # Setup preferences...
  File "/home/maweki/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gourmet/GourmetRecipeManager.py", line 102, in setup_prefs
    self.prefsGui = prefsGui.PreferencesGui(
  File "/home/maweki/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gourmet/prefsGui.py", line 61, in __init__
    self.ui.add_from_file(uifile)
gi.repository.GLib.Error: g-file-error-quark: Failed to open file “/home/maweki/.local/share/ui/preferenceDialog.ui”: No such file or directory (4)

and this is actually #107

This was just a review of all dependencies actually needed to build gourmet from source with all the dependencies. I have not checked what is actually documented and what isn't.

[cydanil]

Mostly fixed in #279 , the remaining are for package maintainers to ensure that system dependencies are referenced.