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How do I install workrave from source?

I cloned the source from github:

git clone https://github.com/rcaelers/workrave.git
cd workrave

there is an INSTALL file which sais, I should use ./configure; make; make install but that seems outdated. There is no config file. I found out that I have to use autogen.sh boforehand:

sudo apt-get install autopoint intltool libxtst-dev glib-2.0 python-cheetah glibmm-2.4 gtkmm-2.4
./autogen.sh
./configure
make

This stops with those warnings:

In file included from UnixInputMonitorFactory.cc:38:0:
XScreenSaverMonitor.hh:27:38: fatal error: X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h: No such file or directory
 #include <X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h>
                                      ^
compilation terminated.

maybe I am missing some packages? How can I find out the needed packages and How do I compile it?

rubo77
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1 Answers1

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You can find missing files with

apt-file update
apt-file find scrnsaver.h

Which results in

libxss-dev: /usr/include/X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h

You also need the debug symbols to that package that you will find with 

apt-cache search libxtst|grep dbg
apt-cache search libxss|grep dbg

So this will be libxtst6-dbg and libxss1-dbg

so this works fine:

sudo apt-get install autopoint intltool libxtst-dev glib-2.0 python-cheetah \
             glibmm-2.4 gtkmm-2.4 libxss-dev libxtst6-dbg libxext6-dbg libxss1-dbg
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install
rubo77
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  • The workrave initial configure passed, but still missing this header. After installing the missing packages as suggested by rubo77, redo config, then make was happy. – Kemin Zhou Jun 01 '18 at 17:36
  • I still get errors such as "./configure: line 18329: syntax error near unexpected token -Wno-cast-function-type,'" or "./configure: line 18329:AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG(-Wno-cast-function-type,'": is the repository still up to date? – J..y B..y Aug 23 '18 at 17:12
  • You should open an issue in the workrave GitHub issues – rubo77 Aug 24 '18 at 16:35