Vala-panel-appmenu: Unable to install (various errors)

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I’m trying to install vala-panel-appmenu via AUR packages on an Manjaro-XFCE distribution. The prerequisites (gobject-introspection as well as “appmenu-gtk-module” are installed.
I am trying to install the packages vala-panel-appmenu-registrar, vala-panel-appmenu-common as well as vala-panel-appmenu-xfce.
On a machine I’m administering remotely, I got an error message: the whole budgie desktop was listed as a requirement.
Upon trying to reproduce the error, I deinstalled -registrar, -common and -xfce on my machine.
This time, I got a different error:

PKGBUILD doesn’t exist.

The -registrar package seems to be installed without a problem.
Can anyone make sense of this error and point me to a possible solution?

The version numbers of packages I am trying to install:
vala-panel-appmenu-registrar 0.7.6-1 (AUR)
vala-panel-appmenu-common 0.7.6-2 (AUR)
vala-panel-appmenu-xfce 0.7.6-2 (AUR)

Kind regards,

Immo

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I tried to install those with yay and I am getting a similar error:

Run-time dependency budgie-1.0 found: NO (tried pkgconfig)
 
vala-panel-appmenu/meson.build:81:0: ERROR: Dependency "budgie-1.0" not found, tried pkgconfig
 
A full log can be found at /home/ishaan/.cache/yay/vala-panel-appmenu/src/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
 -> error making: vala-panel-appmenu (vala-panel-appmenu-common vala-panel-appmenu-xfce)

Check the latest comment regarding this issue of the AUR page for vala-panel-appmenu-xfce and vala-panel-appmenu-common. You might have to wait till the issue gets fixed.

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This is a splitted pkgbuild, which pkgbase is vala-panel-appmenu , since you want xfce grab the pkgbuild and disable mate and budgie

_disable_mate=true
_disable_xfce=false
_disable_vala=false
_disable_budgie=true

I don’t know if you need or use vala-panel-appmenu-valapanel, if not you can _disable_vala=true

At the moment the budgie stuff don’t build anyway

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This set me into the right direction.
I’m a newbie regarding Linux, So it took me a while to figure this out. I’ll backtrace my steps for anyone who might need this later on, including myself:

  • Created a new folder with a textfile named “PKGBUILD”
  • copied the content of the PKGBUILD from the vala-panel-appmenu-common-git package into the newly created file
  • edited the lines to

_disable_mate=1
_disable_xfce=0
_disable_vala=1
_disable_budgie=1

  • switched to the command line, changed directory into the newly created folder with the PKGBUILD file
  • makepkg
  • makepkg --install
  • Enter admin password upon request

For the appmenu to work, I also had to install vala-panel-appmenu-registrar-git, gobject-introspection and appmenu-gtk-module – but those can also be installed via pamac. No additional configuration needed.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the solution!

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You can grab every pkgbuilds (even deleted ones) with for example:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/vala-panel-appmenu.git

This will include all the git history and additional files (if any) uploaded on the AUR

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