ValueError: Namespace NM not available about networkmanager-dmenu

[firecat53]

What version of python2-gobject (or similar package on your system) is installed? My initial guess is that it's really old...

[dieggsy]

How would I check that? gi.version_info says (3,20,0)

[firecat53]

Hmm, that doesn't seem too old. I'm only on 3.22 here. How about your libnm-glib package? Mine is 1.6.2.

What distro are you using? Maybe I can fire it up in a VM and see if I can reproduce.

[dieggsy]

Oh wow, I was missing libnm-glib - perhaps it should be stated in the requirements?

It works with dmenu now, thanks for the help! I'm getting some rofi related issues, I can open a different issue.

[firecat53]

What distro are you using? I'll add a note for libnm-glib but I'd like to see on which distros it's required or not by another package (e.g. it's required by networkmanager on Arch).

[dieggsy]

I'm using elementary OS 0.4 Loki.

[firecat53]

So I'm running Elementary 0.4 live CD in a VM, and it has libnm-glib4 installed by default. It also seems to be required by other packages. Any idea why it might not have been installed on your system?

[dieggsy]

@firecat53 Er, I see that I have libnm-glib4. I think what I installed was libnm-glib-dev. Does that mean I had libnm-glib4 installed already, but for some reason networkmanager_dmenu didn't work until I installed libnm-glib-dev? Can you also get networkmanager_dmenu to work by default in elementary 0.4? It's certainly odd. In any case, I'm rather new to linux and have been enjoying tinkering (aka breaking things only to have to fix them later) so it's entirely possible it was my fault.

[firecat53]

Oh, oops. I guess I should have tested that :) Well, I'll get to it in a day or two.

[firecat53]

Seems that the debian/ubuntu based distros need libnm-util-dev. Added a README note. Thanks for finding it 😄