ags init fails symlinking node_modules/astal

[ZerdoX-x]

Currently following docs, just finished installation. I am on gentoo.

The node_modules directory contains the astal package, but its purpose is only to provide type information. The package.json is a file describing the project and tsconfig.json is a file containing settings for TypeScript.

ags init gives me: error: symlink /home/user/.config/ags/node_modules/astal: no such file or directory
and ags run: ✘ [ERROR] Invalid alias substitution: ""

[Aylur]

Can't repro, perhaps you missed -ldflags part of the installation? going from the ags run error it sounds like you don't have the astal-gjs package installed

[Ghoelian]

I'm running into the same issue right now. I did use a different directory to install all of the libraries to, because I am on an immutable Fedora flavour, so /usr is read-only. I added ~/.local/lib64 to my PKG_CONFIG_PATH, and installed astal to ~/.local.

pkg-config does report that astal-gjs is installed on my system though.

[Ghoelian]

Also I forgot to mention, the ~/.config/ags/node_modules folder is empty. The other files have been created correctly it seems.