DBus: Upgrade or Not

DBus: Upgrade or Not

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Ubuntu-mate 18.04 is the environment
I was wanting to install the Fenrir screen reader:
sudo pip3 install fenrir-screenreader
Pip then whined about DBus package requirement not being met.
  configure: error: Package requirements (dbus-1 >= 1.8) were not met:
dpkg -l | grep dbus
reports dbus is 1.12.2
Now, dbus is a means by which daemons communicate with each other. I don't think I can just grab the latest dbus package, build it and install it over the current one. That seems like a great way to break your system.
What are my choices here?

Re: DBus: Upgrade or Not

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Hi,

On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 13:21:04 -0600
Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote:

> Ubuntu-mate 18.04 is the environment
> I was wanting to install the Fenrir screen reader:
> sudo pip3 install fenrir-screenreader
> Pip then whined about DBus package requirement not being met.
>   configure: error: Package requirements (dbus-1 >= 1.8) were not met:
> dpkg -l | grep dbus
> reports dbus is 1.12.2

dbus 1.12.x is more recent - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Bus . However,
your system may be missing some *-dev packages. Try installing this -
https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/libdbus-1-dev . Good luck!

You are right that you should not replace dbus...

> Now, dbus is a means by which daemons communicate with each other. I don't
> think I can just grab the latest dbus package, build it and install it over
> the current one. That seems like a great way to break your system. What are
> my choices here?
> 
> 
> 
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Re: DBus: Upgrade or Not

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The answer was indeed to instal
libdbus1-dev
The problem was I wasn't expecting an error like that; no such problem occurred on the Debian box.
Oh, well, all is ok, now.


----- Original Message -----
From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com>
To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 00:26:36 +0200
Subject: Re: DBus: Upgrade or Not

> Hi,

On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 13:21:04 -0600
Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote:

> Ubuntu-mate 18.04 is the environment
> I was wanting to install the Fenrir screen reader:
> sudo pip3 install fenrir-screenreader
> Pip then whined about DBus package requirement not being met.
>   configure: error: Package requirements (dbus-1 >= 1.8) were not met:
> dpkg -l | grep dbus
> reports dbus is 1.12.2

dbus 1.12.x is more recent - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Bus . However,
your system may be missing some *-dev packages. Try installing this -
https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/libdbus-1-dev . Good luck!

You are right that you should not replace dbus...

> Now, dbus is a means by which daemons communicate with each other. I don't
> think I can just grab the latest dbus package, build it and install it over
> the current one. That seems like a great way to break your system. What are
> my choices here?
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Blinux-list mailing list
> Blinux-list@redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list



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