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#1 2022-10-08 11:13:05

Mr Green
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Conky upgrade [Solved]

I have been trying to get conky to install but seem to have run into a dependency issue, namely libxnvctrl package. Is there a workaround for this or do I just have to wait for a fix?

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#2 2022-10-08 19:09:02

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Re: Conky upgrade [Solved]

Yes, libxvnctrl doesn't seem to be present even in the testing repos. I expect it to be present upstream, which suggests to me that it's been removed for a hardcoded opcode issue

Edit: Yes, it's there upstream.

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Architecture: pentium4, Testing repos: Yes, Hardware: EeePC 901+2GB RAM+OS half on the SD card.

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#3 2022-10-09 06:55:47

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Re: Conky upgrade [Solved]

https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q … =&flagged=

libxvnctrl no longer exists upstream.

But the PKGBUILD of conky still contains a dependency on libxvnctrl.

We are either using stale versions of upstream PKGBUILDs or something else..?

error: target not found: libxnvctrl
error: target not found: libXNVCtrl.so

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#4 2022-10-09 07:00:00

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Re: Conky upgrade [Solved]

If I remove it, I get:

CMake Error at cmake/ConkyPlatformChecks.cmake:457 (message):
  Unable to find XNVCtrl library
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:35 (include)

This is an upstream problem and as long as they have a working binary package, they don't care about rebuild issues..

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#5 2022-10-09 07:01:37

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Re: Conky upgrade [Solved]

https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-p … k/PKGBUILD

is marked out-of-date, so we can not report a bug there.

This means, we have to wait, till they fix it.

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#6 2022-10-09 08:45:02

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Re: Conky upgrade [Solved]

abaumann wrote:

https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q … =&flagged=

libxvnctrl no longer exists upstream.

My bad, I typed libxvnctrl when I actually meant libxnvctrl


Architecture: pentium4, Testing repos: Yes, Hardware: EeePC 901+2GB RAM+OS half on the SD card.

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#7 2022-10-09 09:37:47

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Re: Conky upgrade [Solved]

I have libxnvctrl 460.39-1.0 installed as it was part of an old iso image I had. Only noticed when trying to update/refresh iso image and build failed. Then I went looking fro package and could not find it.

See arch [64] is using version 515.76-1

Can you link me up with 32bit pkgbuild please?

https://github.com/void-linux/void-pack … y/template

Interesting

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#8 2022-10-09 12:23:47

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Re: Conky upgrade [Solved]

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#9 2022-10-09 13:04:45

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Re: Conky upgrade [Solved]

Oh, https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/libxnvctrl/ is part of nvidia-settings (the whole bunch of nvidia
doesn't build probably, there never was a 32-bit patch).

https://archive.archlinux32.org/packages/l/libxnvctrl/

libxnvctrl-460.39-1.0-pentium4.pkg.tar.zst    2021-01-28 20:33    78K   

This means if conky starts to depend on Nvidia GPU specific stuff instead of purely relying on the widget
library below, this is really sad.

I tried to build nvidia-settings (with libxnvctrl), which needs nvidia-utils which doesn't provide 32-bit binaries anymore.

So, the only hope is to patch conky so that it doesn't need libxnvctrl (which means, it will also be quite useless
for people with Nvidia cards).

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#10 2022-10-09 13:06:19

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Re: Conky upgrade [Solved]

I'll look into that, let's see if I can eliminate Nvidia things from conky.. :-)

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#11 2022-10-09 13:16:21

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Re: Conky upgrade [Solved]

That was easy, there is an option to disable Nvidia:

https://git.archlinux32.org/packages/tr … y/PKGBUILD

currently rebuilding... and rebuilt.. pushed to stable..

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#12 2022-10-09 13:17:44

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Re: Conky upgrade [Solved]

BTW: I saw the "retro" 32-bit ArchBang, cool. :-)
And even cooler is the current "32-bit ArchBang"..

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#13 2022-10-09 16:19:34

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Re: Conky upgrade [Solved]

I am not sure about cooler ;-) , it is systemd free and near impossible to update [due to pacman changes over the years]

To be honest have had so little interest in 32 bit version other than a handful of requests, does not seem worth maintaining. Most users that ask about 32bit version are using very old hardware [mostly laptops] that they do not want to give.

Sorry going off topic.

Will mark thread as solved, thanks again for your help.

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#14 2022-10-09 16:30:45

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Re: Conky upgrade [Solved]

You're welcome :-)

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