Mycroft-core: Getting Started

Created on 11 Jan 2018 · 7Comments · Source: MycroftAI/mycroft-core

bash dev_setup.sh
Installing packages...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package python-gobject-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
python-gobject-2-dev

E: Package 'python-gobject-dev' has no installation candidate

I have installed "python-gobject-2-dev" using : apt-get install python-gobject-2-dev

But I always get the same error

Edit System : Kali GNU/Linux Rolling 64-bit

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Ahmed-Benj

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The dev_setup.sh calls for it to be installed:
$SUDO apt-get install -y (stuff, things) python-gobject-dev (other stuff, things)

Debian lists python-gobject-2 as deprecated:
https://packages.debian.org/unstable/python-gobject

Kali was based on debian at one point, and the packages from debian more than likely work. Not a great solution but for now, perhaps you could edit the dev_setup.sh script to remove that package, and try installing it from a debian repo?

el-tocino on 19 Jan 2018

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We need more info to help -- what OS and version are you using? "Linux" is a many-faceted thing!

penrods on 12 Jan 2018

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The dev_setup.sh calls for it to be installed:
$SUDO apt-get install -y (stuff, things) python-gobject-dev (other stuff, things)

Debian lists python-gobject-2 as deprecated:
https://packages.debian.org/unstable/python-gobject

el-tocino on 19 Jan 2018

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I am having this same issue with Debian Testing, there is no package "python-gobject-dev" currently in the Testing repositories.

bretsky84 on 29 Jan 2018

Seems like python-gobject-dev is a transitional package installing python-gobject-2-dev on stretch so it might work just changing the dependency. On jessie (which is the base OS for Mark-1) it installs a couple of other packages as well so we'll need to test properly before any change.

Feel free to help by modifying the dev_setup script to install python-gobject-2-dev and check if that's enough to solve your issues.

forslund on 29 Jan 2018

Perhaps this will help you. I'm using the latest Kali Rolling distribution and had to make a few minor adjustments to the install.

The Kali repositories don't have the s3cmd package, so I added the debian repository into /etc/apt/sources.list (deb http://ftp.us.debian.or/debian stable main contrib)

The python-gobject-dev package is listed as deprecated and replaced by python-gobject-2-dev, so I changed the one mention of python-gobject-dev in the dev_setup script to python-gobject-2-dev

Everything installed fine after these minor tweaks. The only package pulled from the debian repository was s3cmd, everythign else came from Kali's repositories.

I also created a new thread with these instructions for anyone else using Kali rolling.