How to find or install ibus dependencies?

General Discussion
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I’m trying to install GitHub - sarim/ibus-avro: Avro phonetic bangla typing layout for ibus for Bengali which requires ibus. After searching the bundles I found that user-basici-dev and desktop-dev provides ibus-dev package but those are huge bundles which I do not need.

my question is, how can i get the ibus-dev package get into clear linux?

The error shown while compiling is

configure: error: Package requirements (ibus-1.0) were not met:

No package 'ibus-1.0' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.
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build it from source

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You mean I should but ibus-dev from source?

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yep, since you don’t want the bundle

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I tried building, but it requires gnome-autogen.sh which is in gnome-common package which itself requires some other bundles!

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then build the dependencies from source too

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Dev libs are just needed for the compile
There’s really no need to store them unless you use them everyday.

Just grab the user-basic-dev bundle, build your package, then bundle-remove user-basic-dev

oh you might want to save or redirect the output of
sudo swupd bundle-add user-basic-dev
as well to get a list of downloaded dependencies, in case you need to remove some of those as well.

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I needed ibus-dev package. I installed user-basic-dev but that didn’t provided the ibus development headers. Some bundles that have ibus-dev are huge.

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just go for qt-basic-dev, compile and then remove it
sudo swupd bundle-add qt-basic-dev

just tried to compile ibus-avro and its working perfectly with qt-basic-dev package installed.

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Yes, It finally installed with that bundle. However, I wasn’t doing any qt development! It should be in some more generic dev bundle i guess.