Zim-desktop-wiki: Sourceview plugin doesnt work with libgtksourceview-3.0-1

Created on 20 Nov 2019 · 6Comments · Source: zim-desktop-wiki/zim-desktop-wiki

Sourceview plugin doesnt work with libgtksourceview-3.0-1
In Ubuntu 18.04.3 I have no libgtksourceview-3.0

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kofesutra

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$ sudo apt install gir1.2-gtksource-3.0

solved the problem for me (Ubuntu 16.04).

Hope it helps !
:-)

lucvtzel on 8 Dec 2019

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$ sudo apt install gir1.2-gtksource-3.0

solved the problem for me (Ubuntu 16.04).

Hope it helps !
:-)

lucvtzel on 8 Dec 2019

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Dear lucvtzel !
Thank you very much!
It is works on Ubuntu 18.04 too :)

kofesutra on 9 Dec 2019

Same problem here on "Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)" with the default Zim 0.68.

Fixed with Zim 0.72.1 from PPA.

2xyo on 6 Feb 2020

Zim 0.68 uses Gtk2 and the plugin imports gtksourceview2 (zim/plugins/sourceview.py#L28). Since the 0.70 version, these libraries are replaced by Gtk3 >= 3.18 and gtksourceview-3.
see README.md 0.70 : packages needed on Ubuntu. For the SourceView plugin we must install gir1.2-gtksource-3.0 too.

lucvtzel on 6 Feb 2020

Lucvtzel's fix works on the 20.04 beta and 19.10 release of ubuntu as well.

Could this just be added to the list of package dependencies in the manual?

Notsonoble on 7 Apr 2020

Showing package dependencies is a job of your distribution package manager. Zim in ubuntu 20.04 is properly packaged and suggests proper package for Source View plugin:

$ apt show zim | egrep 'Depends|Recommends|Suggests'

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

Depends: python3:any, python3-gi, python3-xdg, gir1.2-gtk-3.0, xdg-utils
Recommends: gir1.2-gtkspell3-3.0
Suggests: bzr, git, mercurial, fossil, graphviz, ditaa, scrot, dvipng, gir1.2-gtksource-3.0, python3-zeitgeist, r-base, gnuplot, lilypond

I have not checked PPA package, probably its meta info needs fixing.