Installing on VanillaOS: libgda/gsound not detected after install

[TDuffinNTU]

Description

Bit of a niche one, but tried installing on vanillaOS and couldn't get the extension to detect the dependencies even though they're present on the APX package manager.

Problem Explanation

As above.

The bug happens when ...

Expected Behavior

A clear and concise description of what you expected to happen, and how the actual outcome differs:

• Pano shouldn't ...
• It should behave ...

Reprodution

Attempting to install pano via the gnome extensions app on a fresh install of vanilla OS, after installing the dependencies via APX.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Install VanillaOS
2. Install pano deps (gsound and libgda)
3. install pano via gnome extension manager
4. pano will fail to load, saying the deps arent present.

Details

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It happens with any application?

• Yes, it applies to any application.
• No. Only with the following applications:
  • VSCode
• It works with the following applications that I have tried:
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It happens only on one computer?

• I don't know.
• No. I have tried it on more than one computer.

It happens only with some specific gnome configuration?

• I don't think that the configuration matters.
• Yes. Only if the following config is set up:
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It happens only with some specific extension installed?

• I don't think that the installed extensions affect the bug/behavior.
• Yes. Only if the following gnome extension is installed:
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Diagnostics

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Environment

• GNOME Shell version: 43.1
• Distro: VanillaOS
• Distro version: 22.10 all

Screenshots

Screenshot 1 description

Evidence of gsound and libgda installed.

Screenshot 2 description

Pano error

[sskartheekadivi]

I'm facing the same on Ubuntu 22.04.02 LTS with Gnome 42.5.
Tried removing and reinstalling the extension but didn't work.

[busybox11]

@TDuffinNTU You'd have to install the required binaries on the host system, this could probably work by installing them to the ABRoot shell. I don't have experience with Vanilla OS myself, only some knowledge about it, so I can't really help with that - yet. Just know that apx won't do anything here since it will install the packages in a container - they need to be in the same host as GNOME, the host OS itself.

@sskartheekadivi You shouldn't have any issues though, as long as you have the necessary packages installed.

[TDuffinNTU]

Yup I think this might just be a limitation of Vanilla's container system for now. Dependency hell strikes again!

[zvictor]

I have the same issue in NixOS.

Requiring GSound, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'GSound' (any version) not found

I am trying to write my own Nix definition of Pano in order to circumvent #271, but I can't get past the lack of Gsound.
This is my code:

{ stdenv, fetchzip, lib, gnome, glib, libgda, gsound }:

stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
  pname = "gnome-shell-extension-pano";
  version = "v23-alpha2";
  src = fetchzip {
    url = "https://github.com/oae/gnome-shell-pano/releases/download/${version}/[email protected]";
    sha256 = "Y8WgVUHX094RUwYKdt7OROPZMl3dakK0zOU9OTdyqxc=";
    stripRoot = false;
  };

  buildInputs = [
    gnome.gnome-shell
    libgda
    gsound
  ];

  installPhase = ''
    runHook preInstall
    local_ext_dir=$out/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]
    install -d $local_ext_dir
    cp -r * $local_ext_dir
    runHook postInstall
  '';

  meta = with lib; {
    description = "Pano GNOME Shell Clipboard Management Extension (${version} pre-release)";
    homepage = "https://github.com/oae/gnome-shell-pano";
    license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
    platforms = platforms.linux;
    maintainers = [ maintainers.zvictor ];
  };
}

{ inputs, lib, config, pkgs, ... }: {

  home.packages = with pkgs; [
    gnome-shell-extension-pano
    gsound # needed by pano
  ];


  home.file.".local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]" = {
    source = "${pkgs.gnome-shell-extension-pano}/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]";
  };
  ...

[zvictor]

Never mind, I managed to fix it!
#271 (comment)

[vleeuwenmenno]

@zvictor You said you managed to fix it, did this work for you for alpha3 as well? I am running NixOS 24.05 and tried your patch from #271 (comment) but I had no luck getting past the GSound issues.

[zvictor]

Well, yes and no... I managed to have it running in two machines, but after a few days the error message came back. I really don't understand why.