Trying to get bottles to work in Debian Buster

[Lars]

Hello all.

I've been trying to get bottles to work on Debian Buster for a couple days now, almost a week.

All three varians (Snap, AppImage, .deb) fail for me. Snapd and AppImage both have some errors in regards to .so files so I guess it has to do with system dependencies. I think .deb would be the easiest to make work and stabler at that, but I have a different error, a python error that as far as I can tell has something to do with problems instantiating a gtk component in python, but as I've worked very little with Gtk in Python I'm not entirely sure:

(bottles:8738): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 20:42:12.715: Error building template class 'BottlesList' for an instance of type 'BottlesList': .:69:1 Invalid object type 'HdyStatusPage' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/bottles/bottles/main.py", line 125, in do_command_line self.do_activate() File "/usr/share/bottles/bottles/main.py", line 169, in do_activate arg_lnk=self.arg_lnk) File "/usr/share/bottles/bottles/window.py", line 123, in __init__ page_list = BottlesList(self, arg_executable) File "/usr/share/bottles/bottles/pages/list.py", line 207, in __init__ self.btn_create.connect("pressed", self.window.show_add_view) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'connect'

From what I see, that btn_create should be a Gtk.Template.Child() and it should in theory be working, but I've never used templates (Gtk in python) so I'm not sure if it's dependant on the .ui file meta/lamba-ed right before the class definition, and if it's a location issue, etc.

I appreciate any help to make this work. Bottles would really fit some use cases for me.

[mirkobrombin]

Hi, the problem is in the first row:

'BottlesList': .:69:1 Invalid object type 'HdyStatusPage' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/bottles/bottles/main.py"

Bottles is missing the libhandy-1-0 dependency which provide the HdyWidgets. There is a new build in the releases, can you give it a try? https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles/releases/download/2021.7.28-treviso/com.usebottles.bottles_2021.7.28-treviso_amd64.deb

[mirkobrombin]

It is only provided by experimental
https://packages.debian.org/experimental/libhandy-1-dev

[Lars]

If I give up and try to fix a whole package instead, would you suggest wether appimage or the snap as the best option, please?

[mirkobrombin]

If I give up and try to fix a whole package instead, would you suggest wether appimage or the snap as the best option, please?

AppImage if it works

[Lars]

Mirko, just to let you know, I built the package for 1.2.2 for Debian Buster (Stable), was easy, and so far bottles seems to be working, only, so you know, the glibc included in Buster is too old to run vagnilia 6.13, but it'll run Lutris 6.13 if you use it (I'll test Proton later).

[mirkobrombin]

Mirko, just to let you know, I built the package for 1.2.2 for Debian Buster (Stable), was easy, and so far bottles seems to be working, only, so you know, the glibc included in Buster is too old to run vagnilia 6.13, but it'll run Lutris 6.13 if you use it (I'll test Proton later).

thanks