Error while running gnome-music using jhbuild

Question

I'm using jhbuild to build and run gnome-music. I'm having a successful build but when I run the command

   jhbuild run gnome-music 

I get the following error

   One of the errors is 

    1.GstTag was imported without specifying a version first

The rest are in the link above.

I'm not sure how to proceed further,can someone help me out?(I'm using Ubuntu 17.04). I'm following the steps given on: https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-music

Answer 1

Gst just warns you against not mentioning a version number. Hence, that's not the error.

The error you are facing is regarding Tracker. As you are on Ubuntu distribution, you should know that Ubuntu disables Tracker by default. Hence jhbuild run gnome-music refuses to start. Tracker is a file-indexing service based on file's metadata.

However, Ubuntu is deciding to enable Tracker by default as many GNOME's core apps relies on it. Read here .

Enable Tracker and jhbuild will pick it up from the host system.