AppImage requires osm-gps-map on Ubuntu

[florisvanvugt]

Hi! Thanks for this great piece of software.
I'm on Ubuntu 24.04.2 and when I first tried to run the AppImage I imagined it would run as-is.
However I think it requires a package or perhaps several to be installed first.
Perhaps this does not require any changes in the software, but I'm just posting in case it's helpful for fellow Ubuntu users.

Details:
I initially tried to run the appimage as follows:

wget https://github.com/dakk/gweatherrouting/releases/download/v0.2/GWeatherRouting-x86_64.AppImage
chmod +x GWeatherRouting-x86_64.AppImage
./GWeatherRouting-x86_64.AppImage

This gave me the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "gweatherrouting/gtk/mainwindow.py", line 27, in <module>
  File "gi/__init__.py", line 122, in require_version
ValueError: Namespace OsmGpsMap not available

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "gweatherrouting/__main__.py", line 37, in <module>
  File "gweatherrouting/__main__.py", line 30, in start_ui_gtk
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1176, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1147, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 690, in _load_unlocked
  File "PyInstaller/loader/pyimod02_importers.py", line 450, in exec_module
  File "gweatherrouting/gtk/mainwindow.py", line 29, in <module>
  File "gi/__init__.py", line 122, in require_version
ValueError: Namespace OsmGpsMap not available
[PYI-135497:ERROR] Failed to execute script '__main__' due to unhandled exception!

After some searching I figured I needed perhaps to install the OsmGpsMap app that it was referring to.
Here is what I tried:

sudo apt install libosmgpsmap-1.0-dev

Then when I ran gweatherrouting it works:

./GWeatherRouting-x86_64.AppImage

Of note: I had previously installed other packages (sudo apt install gobject-introspection python3-gdal libffi8 librsvg2-2 libgdal-dev) but this was before I tried the appimage, so I am not sure if they too are required.

[dakk]

Hi Floris, thank you again for reporting the issue.
@scyrock do you know what could be the issue here?

[scyrock]

Hi Floris, thank you for reporting the issue.

I ran some tests on a clean Ubuntu installation and can confirm that you're absolutely right, the absence of libosmgpsmap-1.0-dev prevents the AppImage from launching correctly.
Currently, the AppImage generation script includes only the libosmgpsmap-1.0, but not the development package. This may result in missing dependencies.

Additionally, I noticed that on a vanilla Ubuntu 24.04 system, libgtk-3-0 is also not present by default, which could cause further issues.

Updating the AppImage generation script should fix the issue.

[dakk]

Hi Floris, thank you for reporting the issue.

I ran some tests on a clean Ubuntu installation and can confirm that you're absolutely right, the absence of libosmgpsmap-1.0-dev prevents the AppImage from launching correctly. Currently, the AppImage generation script includes only the libosmgpsmap-1.0, but not the development package. This may result in missing dependencies.

Additionally, I noticed that on a vanilla Ubuntu 24.04 system, libgtk-3-0 is also not present by default, which could cause further issues.

Updating the AppImage generation script should fix the issue.

So adding the dev package should solve the issue?

[scyrock]

So adding the dev package should solve the issue?

I haven't checked it, but I am confident that this could fix the problem

[dakk]

Ok; I further inspected the issue, and it seems it needs OsmGpsMap-1.0.typelib from the girepository. I'm doing some tries.

[dakk]

The issue is confirmed to be "OsmGpsMap-1.0.typelib"; but even if I include the file in ./usr/lib/girepository-1.0, and set the env variable GI_TYPELIB_PATH, it tries to get it from /usr/lib/girepostiroy-1.0. I'm not sure why it is bypassing it.

[dakk]

After further inspection, the issue seems to be this error:

dakk ~/squashfs-root GI_TYPELIB_PATH=./usr/lib/girepository-1.0 \
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./usr/lib \
g-ir-inspect OsmGpsMap
g-ir-inspect: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgirepository-1.0.so.1: undefined symbol: g_once_init_leave_pointer