Cannot install on ubuntu 25.04 on RPi 4B

[hobbit44]

One thing is i couldnt install libgpiod2 as it complained about a missing installation candidate. I had to install libgpiod3.

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/node-libgpiod/src/main.o
│ In file included from ../src/main.cc:1:
│ ../src/bulk.hh:13:3: error: ‘gpiod_line_bulk’ does not name a type; did you mean ‘gpiod_line_bias’?
│    13 |   gpiod_line_bulk *getNativeBulk();
│       |   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
│       |   gpiod_line_bias
│ ../src/bulk.hh:22:3: error: ‘gpiod_line_bulk’ does not name a type; did you mean ‘gpiod_line_bias’?
│    22 |   gpiod_line_bulk bulk;
│       |   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
│       |   gpiod_line_bias
│ In file included from ../src/main.cc:3:
│ ../src/line.hh:13:3: error: ‘gpiod_line’ does not name a type
│    13 |   gpiod_line *getNativeLine();
│       |   ^~~~~~~~~~
│ ../src/line.hh:20:3: error: ‘gpiod_line’ does not name a type
│    20 |   gpiod_line *line;
│       |   ^~~~~~~~~~
│ In file included from ../../../../[email protected]/node_modules/nan/nan.h:62,
│                  from ../src/bulk.hh:5:
│ /home/matt/.cache/node-gyp/22.18.0/include/node/node.h:1228:7: warning: cast between incompatible function types from ‘void (*)(Nan::ADDON_REGISTER_FUNCTION_ARGS_TYPE)’ {aka ‘void (*)(v8::Local<v8::Object>)’} to ‘node::addon_regist…
│  1228 |       (node::addon_register_func) (regfunc),                          \
│       |       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
│ /home/matt/.cache/node-gyp/22.18.0/include/node/node.h:1262:3: note: in expansion of macro ‘NODE_MODULE_X’
│  1262 |   NODE_MODULE_X(modname, regfunc, NULL, 0)  // NOLINT (readability/null_usage)
│       |   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
│ ../src/main.cc:131:1: note: in expansion of macro ‘NODE_MODULE’
│   131 | NODE_MODULE(NativeExtension, InitAll);
│       | ^~~~~~~~~~~
│ make: *** [node-libgpiod.target.mk:114: Release/obj.target/node-libgpiod/src/main.o] Error 1

[sombriks]

Hello @hobbit44

Can you check if gpiod version on this ubuntu release is 1.6 or 2.0?

the 2.0 version is on our roadmap yet to be fully supported.

[sonnyp]

On Debian Trixie

> apt info libgpiod3
Package: libgpiod3
Version: 2.2.1-2
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Source: libgpiod
Maintainer: Gavin Lai (賴建宇) <[email protected]>
Installed-Size: 337 kB
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.33), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3.1), libstdc++6 (>= 13.1)
Breaks: libgpiod2 (<< 2.2.1-2), libgpiod2t64 (<< 2.2.1-2)
Replaces: libgpiod2, libgpiod2t64