Add list of required dependencies

[hugobuddel]

It took me about an hour to get all the dependencies in place needed to run MTR. These are the dependencies I ended up using in the end:

• bash
• coreutils
• curl
• nss-certs
• tar
• grep
• gawk
• sed
• gzip
• gcc-toolchain
• glib
• mesa
• fontconfig
• libxkbcommon
• dbus
• xcb-util-cursor
• qtbase
• xcb-util-wm
• libxcb
• xcb-util
• xcb-util-keysyms
• git

These are guix names of these dependencies.

Maybe add a list of debian or fedora names of the necessary dependencies to the README? Now it is very much trial and error.

[hugobuddel]

The way I usually do this is creating a Containerfile that installs everything; people then have a reference of what to install that they can also run directly (if they want to).

[hugobuddel]

I've to add apt-get install xcb libxkbcommon-dev libxkbcommon-x11-dev libxcb-cursor-dev libxcb-keysyms1-dev libxcb-icccm4-dev libxcb-shape0-dev to https://github.com/AstarVienna/METIS_Environments/blob/main/Head/Containerfile to get it to work there

[hugobuddel]

My configuration is perhaps weird:

• The first list is what I needed for Guix. In guix you have to specify each and every little thing; you don't even get cp for free. So that is a huge list.
• The second list is for quay.io/condaforge/miniforge3:25.3.0-3, a specific (but old) minimalist image based on ubuntu.

A list of dependencies for a recent e.g. debian, fedora, and macos would probably be useful.

The most difficult part where all those xcb packages, as I don't know what they are and I had to guess a bit. However, Qt is quite helpful if you use QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1, it will explicitly list what is missing.

[eiseleb47]

I added the dependencies that are possibly not installed by default to a list in the Readme in da8cf5b. I left out basic things like python, bash etc. Do you think it makes sense to add them as well?

[hugobuddel]

Probably good enough. Let's see! We've been surprised before.