clight doesn't find dependencies [Ubuntu 18.04] about clight HOT 9 CLOSED

Based on your comments, I found that the easiest (and maybe dirtiest) way was to link /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libconfig.so.9 to /usr/lib/libconfig.so.11, which seems to resolve the error I originally reported. It seems like clight expects to find the config file in /root/.config whereas it appears in ~/.config in my system. Is there a way to rectify this without a manual build?

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@FedeDP — thanks for all your help with this. I’m going to close this issue because this doesn’t seem to report any actual deficiency in clight itself, really only the fact that installation on Ubuntu can be an annoyance (since the only way appears to be to build from source — e.g., even the use of dpkg causes a lock from sudo). If the project has time at some point going forward, it might be worth making Ubuntu installs easier via setting up a PPA, etc., but that’s conditional on interest from the clight authors/maintainers and, again, not a problem with clight itself. Thanks again!

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I really hope you enjoy clight!
I'd like to add that i am thinking about entirely dropping deb packages as i don't have much time anymore for my side projects and i don't want to waste time on such a thing.
It would be great if anyone using ubuntu could step up and creating these debs (both clight and clightd) for me, or if clight/clightd was included in debian/ubuntu official repositories.

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The issue is that i created the deb package from my Archlinux; it has libconfig.so.11, while ubuntu ships libconfig.so.9.
You can fallback at building and installing yourself for now: https://github.com/FedeDP/Clight#build-instructions
Obviously you need "-dev" packages to build clight.

I'll have to figure out a way to let deb package be built from current ubuntu version (may be using a docker image).
Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for the report!

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PS: a dirty-but-quick solution would be to link /usr/lib/libconfig.so.9 to /usr/lib/libconfig.so.11 :)

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thanks for the quick reply! hmm, it looks like I'm missing something --- for some reason neither libconfig.so.9 nor libconfig.so.11 appears under /usr/lib/ (even after a successful apt-get install libconfig9). Is there something obvious that I'm just missing here?

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Ubuntu installs shared objects in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libconfig.so.9. Unfortunately I think you'll need to build and install clight manually.

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Oh, I see. Thanks for pointing that out. I'll try building manually then.

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It seems like clight expects to find the config file in /root/.config whereas it appears in ~/.config in my system. Is there a way to rectify this without a manual build?

It tries to find an /etc/default/clight.conf and then a $HOME/.config.
Are you running clight with sudo or as root user? It does not need that.

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