BACON Doesn't start in Ubuntu 20.04

[georgemcginn]

Hello,

I have installed the most recent version of BACON and tried to run in Ubuntu 20.04, but it refuses to start.

I get the following error in my syslog:

May 26 09:54:10 optiplex990 bacongui-gtk.desktop[19914]: GtkSourceView library for 'gtk2' not found! Trying GTK3...
May 26 09:54:10 optiplex990 bacongui-gtk.desktop[19914]: GtkSourceView library for 'gtk3' not found! Exiting...

I have GTK 3.0 installed as I use it for my C/C++ coding.

Any ideas?

[georgemcginn]

I found out what the issue is.

This should be in the install notes, or prominent on the website when downloading.

GTKSourceView was not installed when I installed GTK+ 3.0.

sudo apt-get install libgtksourceview-3.0-1

[bigbass]

Hello georgemcginn

Thanks for posting the needed dependency
and Welcome to the forum!

*just a tip you may run into several more missing dependencies
when and if you try to compile some of the many demos
on the bacon web site or on the forum

most of those dependencies will get picked up and installed in a
script I wrote for debian based systems called auto-install-bacon
its in bash so all transparent to what is happening


Great to see you already got bacon running without it but
some of those deps will be needed along the way

basic-converter.proboards.com/post/11365

Joe