gnome-twitch Source Install Process on Ubuntu 19.10

Ubuntu 19.10 doesn’t have gnome-twitch .4.2. So, given it looks like development is dead, I gave it the ol’ source install.

Here’s the history of the install, starting from when I downloaded the source, and realized I needed Meson & a whole host of other libraries installed on my vanilla Ubuntu desktop installation.

299 sudo apt install meson 300 cd ~ 301 cd Downloads/ 303 tar zxvf gnome-twitch-0.4.2.tar.gz gnome-twitch-0.4.2/ 304 cd gnome-twitch-0.4.2/ 306 meson build 312 sudo apt install cmake 313 meson build 314 sudo apt install gtk+ 315 apt-cache search gtk+ 316 sudo apt install gtk 317 meson build 318 apt-cache search gtk3* 319 sudo apt install gtk3* 320 meson build 321 sudo apt install build-essential libgtk-3-dev 322 meson build 323 sudo apt install libpeas-dev 324 meson build 325 sudo apt install libsoup2.4-dev 326 meson build 327 sudo apt install json-glib-tools 328 meson build 329 sudo apt install libjson-glib-dev 330 meson build 331 sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev 332 meson build 333 sudo ninja -C build install 334 gnome-twitch

Built, but now it’s missing plugins needed to render.

335 sudo apt-get install gnome-twitch-player-backend-* 336 gnome-twitch

Oh, right. I have to link the source-installed binaries. No packages for me… Begin angrily trying to figure out why I can’t reset meson’s build cache from the command line…

337 meson build -Dbuild-executable=false -Dbuild-player-backends=${gstreamer-opengl,gstreamer-cairo,gstreamer-clutter,mpv-opengl} 338 meson setup --wipe 339 meson reconfigure 340 meson build -Dbuild-executable=false -Dbuild-player-backends=${gstreamer-opengl,gstreamer-cairo,gstreamer-clutter,mpv-opengl} 341 meson setup 342 sudo ninja -C build install 343 gnome-twitch 344 meson build -Dbuild-executable=false meson build -Dbuild-executable=false -Dbuild-player-backends=gstreamer-opengl,gstreamer-cairo,gstreamer-clutter,mpv-opengl 345 meson build -Dbuild-executable=false -Dbuild-player-backends=gstreamer-opengl,gstreamer-cairo,gstreamer-clutter,mpv-opengl

…realize I can just go into the folder and delete the cached newly created files.

346 ls 347 ls -las 348 rm -rf reconfigure/ build/ 349 sudo rm -rf reconfigure/ build/

Done. Cleaned up.

351 meson build -Dbuild-executable=false -Dbuild-player-backends=gstreamer-opengl,gstreamer-cairo,gstreamer-clutter,mpv-opengl

Right. Need these libraries.

352 sudo apt-get install libclutter-gst-3.0-dev 353 meson build -Dbuild-executable=false -Dbuild-player-backends=gstreamer-opengl,gstreamer-cairo,gstreamer-clutter,mpv-opengl

These too.

354 sudo apt-get install libclutter-gtk-1.0-dev 355 meson build -Dbuild-executable=false -Dbuild-player-backends=gstreamer-opengl,gstreamer-cairo,gstreamer-clutter,mpv-opengl

Don’t care about OpenGL on this platform, so…

356 meson build -Dbuild-executable=false -Dbuild-player-backends=gstreamer-opengl,gstreamer-cairo,gstreamer-clutter 357 sudo ninja -C build install 358 gnome-twitch

Yahtzee.