Building Sigil 0.9.9 under Kubuntu 18.05 Bionic

[st_albert]

Woe is me! I recently upgraded my Kubuntu 16.04 to the next LTS release, which is 18.04 (bionic beaver).

When I run sigil (previously built from source, ver. 0.9.9, on 16.04), it crashes as follows:

$ sigil
/usr/local/lib/sigil/sigil: error while loading shared libraries: 
libhunspell-1.3.so.0: cannot open shared object file: 
No such file or directory

I now have libhunspell-1.6.so.0. And as you may expect, this is just the first of many mismatched libraries.

So I tried to re-build sigil, but cmake failed with:

cmake error:
 Failed to find Qt5 component "LinguistTools" config file at
  "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/Qt5LinguistTools/Qt5LinguistToolsConfig.cmake"

The upgraded system has

cmake:
  Installed: 3.10.2-1ubuntu2

and indeed there is no "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/Qt5LinguistTools/" directory.

I'm just a little out of my depth here, to say the least. What should I try next?

Thanks in advance,

Albert

[DiapDealer]

sudo apt-get qttools5-dev and/or qttools-dev-tools should take care of that. I'm afraid I've lost track of which version of which os needs which.

Looks like bionic is at sigil 0.9.9 in its repos. If they make it to 9.9.10 soon you may want to consider sticking to the repo version. That way system upgrades won't break it.

I just had a similar thing happen to me on Arch. The upgrade of the system Python to 3.7 broke my custom compiled version of Sigil that was built against 3.6.

EDIT: Make sure to check the Linux build docs in the src directory or online. The Qt5 dependency list was recently updated based on your exact issue, it seems. qttools5-dev seems to be the missing culprit on newer Ubuntu versions.

[st_albert]

Thanks for the quick reply! I had installed qttools5-dev-tools, but not qttools5-dev. The freshly-built sigil seems at first glance to be running fine.

Looks like bionic is at sigil 0.9.9 in its repos. If they make it to 9.9.10 soon you may want to consider sticking to the repo version. That way system upgrades won't break it.

NOW you tell me!
So it is. I never thought to look.

If I were to remove my current version, but leave the config directory, and then install the repo version would it blow away my preferences, plugins, etc or would it recognize them, I wonder?

Albert

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by st_albert

If I were to remove my current version, but leave the config directory, and then install the repo version would it blow away my preferences, plugins, etc or would it recognize them, I wonder?

Your preferences should be retained. I don't believe the repo versions change the location of the sigil's config. You could always back them up to be safe, but I think you'll be fine.

[st_albert]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

EDIT: Make sure to check the Linux build docs in the src directory or online. The Qt5 dependency list was recently updated based on your exact issue, it seems. qttools5-dev seems to be the missing culprit on newer Ubuntu versions.

Actually I did check it -- but it's ver 0.9.9 and I d/l'd it in late Dec 2017. It doesn't mention qttools5-dev, only qttools5-dev-tools. The online version, of course, mentions both.

And as for the repos version, I think I'll hold off on that 'till the version after 0.9.10. That issue with not being able to switch from a certain place in Preview to the corresponding code in code view is something I'd rather avoid. And also there seem to be a number of tweaks to master since 0.9.10 that are worth waiting for. In the mean time, 0.9.9 serves me well.

And again, sincere thanks for your help. Less than 1 hour between when I posted my question and when you posted the solution! Outstanding!

Albert

[KevinH]

If you are building from source anyway, you can clone master or get a zip of the source from current master in Sigil's github website if you want, and get all of the current fixes including both links in Preview working alongside clicking in Preview to update the cursor in CodeView.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by st_albert

Actually I did check it -- but it's ver 0.9.9 and I d/l'd it in late Dec 2017. It doesn't mention qttools5-dev, only qttools5-dev-tools. The online version, of course, mentions both.

You're right! Hard to check the docs in 0.9.9 for changes that weren't made until 0.9.10.

Originally Posted by st_albert

And again, sincere thanks for your help. Less than 1 hour between when I posted my question and when you posted the solution! Outstanding!

You're quite welcome.