[Nix-dev] Gajim and OMEMO

[Christoph-Simon Senjak]

On 27.02.2017 17:31, laverne wrote:
>
> ---- On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 09:35:59 -0600 *Christoph-Simon Senjak
> <christoph.senjak at googlemail.com>* wrote ----
>
>     Hi.
>
>     Has anyone managed to install Gajim with OMEMO-Support?
>
>
> Checkout the thread here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/21692
>
> The easiest way to get it working seems to be the following (I'm sure
> there are better ways, but I'm too lazy to find them):
>
> - Checkout the lastest master branch of nixpkgs
> - Run `nix-env -f . -iA gajim` in the checkout
> - Launch Gajim and install the OMEMO plugin via the plugin manager
> - Maybe restart Gajim
> - Profit
>
> Since you have already installed the plugin via the plugin manager, you
> shouldn't need that step.
>

Ok, that appears to work, thank you.


>     I installed
>     gajim with the plugin-manager (which I had to install manually), as
>     apparently plugins are not packaged. Now, I normally use stable, that
>     is, 16.09.1772.6e17350. When trying to activate the OMEMO plugin, it
>     complains that I have to install python-axolotl. I tried the following
>     in my ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix:
>
>     packageOverrides = pkgs: rec {
>     gajim_ = pkgs.stdenv.lib.overrideDerivation pkgs.gajim (old : {
>     extraPythonPackages = with pkgs.pythonPackages; [ cryptography
>     python-axolotl python-axolotl-curve25519 qrcode python-axolotl ];
>     });
>
>     ...
>
>     });
>
>     and it runs and compiles, but still, I cannot activate the OMEMO
>     plugin.
>     Then I tried to use a shell and use the unstable tree, with the
>     following default.nix:
>
>     with import (builtins.toPath (builtins.getEnv "HOME" +
>     "/nobackup/nixos-unstable/nixpkgs")) {};
>     runCommand "bash"
>     {
>     gajim_ = pkgs.stdenv.lib.overrideDerivation pkgs.gajim (old : {
>     extraPythonPackages = with pkgs.pythonPackages; [ cryptography
>     python-axolotl python-axolotl-curve25519 qrcode python-axolotl ];
>     });
>     buildInputs = [gajim_];
>     } ""
>
>     when trying to build it, I get the error message
>
>     running install tests
>     python test/runtests.py
>     process 19420: arguments to dbus_move_error() were incorrect, assertion
>     "(dest) == NULL || !dbus_error_is_set ((dest))" failed in file
>     dbus-errors.c line 282.
>     This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
>     D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
>     make: *** [Makefile:986: test] Aborted
>     builder for
>     ‘/nix/store/hkrakffkg0g3lahf6r9lq5in13nwcnrm-gajim-0.16.6.drv’ failed
>     with exit code 2
>     error: build of
>     ‘/nix/store/hkrakffkg0g3lahf6r9lq5in13nwcnrm-gajim-0.16.6.drv’ failed
>     /run/current-system/sw/bin/nix-shell: failed to build all dependencies
>
>     so I cannot really build anything with OMEMO support. I am really
>     out of
>     ideas now. How can this be done? Can somebody help, please?
>
>     It would btw be nice to have a gajim-omemo package, as many other
>     distros do, since OMEMO is such an essential feature.
>
>     Best Regards
>     Christoph-Simon Senjak
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