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yaru-theme package

What build step builds the gnome-shell-theme.gresource files?

Asked by Anselm Schüler

I’m trying to manually build Yaru but my builds end up missing a few files that are present in the Ubuntu package.
What is this project doing differently to generate the files share/gnome-shell/gnome-shell-theme.gresource and share/gnome-shell/theme/Yaru/gnome-shell-theme.gresource?

My current build process is:
$ meson ./build --prefix $(realpath ./out)
$ cd build; ninja install

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Details, please - Which Ubuntu release, from which repository did you download the source ...?

Ubuntu creates software packages in a standard way that is based on dpkg and debhelper.

The recommended way for building a package locally is using apt:

Add deb-src entries into the /etc/apt/source.list configuration file and execute the commands

apt install build-essential
apt depends yaru-theme
apt source --compile yaru-theme

If you have already downloaded the source files (and/or have made modifications), then you should run "dpkg-buildpackage" to build the package in the same way as Ubuntu does.

see also https://packaging.ubuntu.com/

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Anselm Schüler (anselmschueler) said (last edit ): 		#2

I’m trying to build it without apt as I’m planning to use the theme on a system without it in the future. However, currently I am using an Ubuntu 22.04 installation. I downloaded the source using git clone from GitHub, and am at commit 730235c. I’m asking what steps need to be done in addition to meson & ninja in order to generate the additional files present in the data portion of the Debian package but not in the output directory of the ninja install.

I have also attempted to build from a git clone from Launchpad at commit fb99563.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

If you don't want to use the Ubuntu tools, then you have to ask elsewhere.

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