polybar installation help (please) [Solved]

[Member manyroads]

I have been following numerous installation helps for polybar to no avail. I have followed these and found some bugs in each:

http://github.com/polybar/polybar#building-from-source
https://medium.com/@tatianaensslin/inst … 4ab6157fb1

I seem to have gotten by the missing dependencies yet still am unable to complete a build. I can’t seem to find the actual log either. arrgghhh….

Here’s what I have:

TIA!

• This topic was modified 3 years, 12 months ago by manyroads.

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1. build-error.txt

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I finally got an error log…

• This reply was modified 3 years, 12 months ago by manyroads.

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1. CMakeOutput.txt

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This is the end:

** Execute 'sudo make install'? [Y/n] Y
** Install example configuration? [y/N]: y
[  5%] Built target xpp
[  9%] Built target jsoncpp_lib_static
[ 11%] Built target i3ipc++
[ 92%] Built target poly
[ 94%] Built target polybar
[100%] Built target polybar-msg
Install the project...
-- Install configuration: "Release"
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/doc/polybar/config
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/bash-completion/completions/polybar
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_polybar
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_polybar_msg
-- Installing: /usr/local/bin/polybar
-- Installing: /usr/local/bin/polybar-msg
[  4%] Built target jsoncpp_lib_static
[ 10%] Built target xpp
[ 12%] Built target i3ipc++
[ 97%] Built target poly
[100%] Built target polybar
Scanning dependencies of target userconfig
-- Installing: /home/antix/.config/polybar/config
[100%] Built target userconfig
** Build complete!

Before:

sudo apt install build-essential git g++

sudo apt-get install cmake cmake-data libcairo2-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev libxcb-icccm4-dev libxcb-image0-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-util0-dev libxcb-xkb-dev pkg-config python-xcbgen xcb-proto libxcb-xrm-dev i3-wm libasound2-dev libmpdclient-dev libiw-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libpulse-dev libxcb-composite0-dev xcb libxcb-ewmh2

git clone https://github.com/jaagr/polybar.git

cd polybar && ./build.sh

The result is on the top.

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noclue wrote:
sudo apt install build-essentials git g++
the package is “build-essential” there is no “s” at the end
It built fine with no errors here using clang instead of g++

[Moderator caprea]

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manyroads, you can read it in the build-error.txt, what is missing.

— Checking for module ‘libpulse’
— Found libpulse, version 12.2
— Checking for module ‘xcb-composite’
— No package ‘xcb-composite’ found
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.13/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:452 (message):
A required package was not found

If you write xcb-composite in the synaptic-search, you will find libxcb-composite0-dev

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Yes… thank you @caprea. tim on mx also noticed that. I have polybar running and am in the process of trying to sort it’s functionality out. I’ll mark this solved.

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@ linuxdaddy

Truth. Copy & Paste error.

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