[tracker/sam/readme-updates] README: Add note about missing dependency errors
- From: Sam Thursfield <sthursfield src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [tracker/sam/readme-updates] README: Add note about missing dependency errors
- Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 20:22:42 +0000 (UTC)
commit 1194a2ffd01c56cb46c54f8ca64b71e4d34ee297
Author: Sam Thursfield <sam afuera me uk>
Date: Thu May 23 22:22:23 2019 +0200
README: Add note about missing dependency errors
README.md | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
---
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 88737587d..ca7dd4e5a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -65,6 +65,12 @@ You can do this by cloning both repos, then creating a symlink in the
Now you can run the commands below to build Tracker and install it in a
new, isolated prefix named `opt/tracker` inside your home folder.
+> NOTE: If you see 'dependency not found' errors from Meson, that means there
+> is a package missing on your computer that you need to install so you can
+> compile Tracker. On Ubuntu/Debian, you can run `apt build-dep tracker-miners`
+> and on Fedora `dnf build-dep tracker-miners` to install all the necessary
+> packages.
+
cd tracker-miners
meson ./build --prefix=$HOME/opt/tracker -Dtracker_core=subproject
cd build
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