libnotify4 on focal requires gnome-shell?

[Justin Lloyd]

Ah interesting. A quick test seems to indicate that notification-daemon is a viable package that only installs about 47 packages, mostly libraries, and that seems to make collectd installation happy, so this really simplifies matters. Thanks for the followup, that helps a lot!

# apt-get -s install collectd | grep Inst | wc -l
530
# apt-get -s install notification-daemon  | grep Inst | wc -l
47
# apt-get -s install collectd notification-daemon  | grep Inst | wc -l
120

Best,
Justin 


-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com> On Behalf Of Colin Watson
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2020 2:30 PM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: libnotify4 on focal requires gnome-shell?

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 05:09:52PM +0000, Justin Lloyd wrote:
> That's very useful, thanks! Since I manage my systems with Salt, I'll 
> need to figure out the best way to update my collectd formula for 
> focal to skip the recommendations but then add back in the stuff that 
> I will need that otherwise won't get installed, so a bit of iterative 
> manual package installing until everything is working as needed.

I also noticed that the package relationship here is actually:

  Recommends: gnome-shell | notification-daemon

So another option you have is to satisfy the "notification-daemon"
alternative there, arranging for that either to be installed beforehand or to appear on the same apt command line.  That can either be the real "notification-daemon" package itself, or any of "dunst", "lxqt-notificationd", "mate-notification-daemon", "notify-osd", or "xfce4-notifyd", all of which declare "Provides: notification-daemon".

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]

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