[SailfishDevel] Missing /usr/bin/sailfish-qml on the phone

Riku Lahtinen rikul.lajolla at kiu.as
Sat Oct 21 06:06:09 UTC 2017


Hi, I ended to similar problems with QML only example in the SDK . 
Compiler claimed about missing libsailfishapp-launcher in my Jolla C. 
Thanks pkcon refresh hint in this discussion I could proceed!


Regards, Riku


Slava Monich kirjoitti 20.10.2017 klo 14:56:
>
> Yes it could do that too but that would involve a more sophisticated 
> UI - the list of packages that are actually getting installed has to 
> be presented to the user, total size, localization and so on. I agree 
> that it would be nice (can't think of any reason not to do it), it's 
> just not high on the priority list I guess.
>
>
> -Slava
>
>
>> Ok, so you are also saying that the "tap-on-RPM-to-install" mechanism 
>> in Sailfish OS could do it too but it's Jolla's choice not to?
>> Is that for security reasons? Since the user has accepted the risks 
>> by ticking "untrusted sources", could the behaviour be changed?
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *De :* Devel <devel-bounces at lists.sailfishos.org> de la part de Slava 
>> Monich <slava.monich at jolla.com>
>> *Envoyé :* vendredi 20 octobre 2017 09:46
>> *À :* devel at lists.sailfishos.org
>> *Objet :* Re: [SailfishDevel] Missing /usr/bin/sailfish-qml on the phone
>> Basically, I was trying to say that if Jolla Store client can do it and
>> command line pkcon can do it (i.e. automatically install dependencies)
>> then Warehouse can do it too. If Warehouse doesn't do it, it's the
>> choice made by the creator of the app. I pulled the sources and haven't
>> found anything there about the dependencies.
>>
>> One thing that I learned today: The PackageKit currently used by
>> Sailfish OS (version 0.8.something + a few patches)  has D-Bus method
>> called GetDepends. However the smart upstream guys have renamed it into
>> DependsOn:
>>
>> https://github.com/hughsie/PackageKit/commit/e590ed91
>>
>> (backward compatibility? what's that? never heard of it!) meaning that
>> Warehouse should try both methods to make sure that it works with future
>> versions of PackageKit. Right now it doesn't seem to do anything.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -Slava
>>
>>
>> On 20/10/17 02:54, Osmo Salomaa wrote:
>> > On Fri, Oct 20, 2017, at 00:41, Slava Monich wrote:
>> >> ... but you can install an rpm by somehow transferring it to the phone
>> >> (e.g. by downloading it with the browser) and then tapping it in
>> >> Settings -> Transfers. You would have to allow installing untrusted
>> >> software first on the Settings -> Untrusted software page.
>> >>
>> >> I don't think this has anything to do with "pkcon refresh".
>> > I constantly keep running into reports from users where the 
>> dependencies
>> > cannot be found and the solution always is "pkcon refresh". As far as I
>> > know that happens both with OpenRepos + Warehouse and the manual 
>> way you
>> > describe. Please try to do something about this, it's annoying to tell
>> > users they need developer mode and command line just to install an RPM.
>> >
>> > https://together.jolla.com/question/132628
>> > https://github.com/otsaloma/poor-maps/issues/57
>> >
>>
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