app wants libxml >

[stefanwien]

Hi,
wierd thing - when I try to install the News-App via the Nextcloud Appstore, it tells me thet I need libxml > 2.7.8, but I only have 2.7.6 installed. - Although I have libxml2-2.9.10 on my Centos box.
I then tried to install it via GitHub, pulled the down the archive and ran make . ni error so far.
But the when I tried to activate it via the NExtcloud GUI or via occ command-line, I get the same error message. I then changed this check in the info file, but when I ried to activate it it crashed. Looking into the logs, shows an sql-error that a column in a table is missing..
So my primary question is why it does not recognize my libxml library?
Any thoughts welcome!

[SMillerDev]

That's not a news question but a nextcloud or php one. We don't do our own install.

[stefanwien]

Hi, well not quite so.
The lib-check is part of what I pulled down from GitHub.
git clone https://github.com/nextcloud/news.git
cd news
grep '2.7.8' * / //* 2>/dev/null
appinfo/info.xml: libxml
docs/install.md:* libxml >= 2.7.8

• so that looks pretty much hardcoded.
  But I guess the lib-check itself is not done within the plugin, but in Nextcloud itself.
  I'll post my question there.

[SMillerDev]

We define a requirement, we don't actually do anything with it.

[anoymouserver]

From what I can tell so far, the requirement for libxml 2.7.8 was dictated by the old feed parser (the LIBXML_HTML_NODEFDTD constant). The currently used feed-io doesn't seem to use this.

You could try to lower the version for you manually here:

news/appinfo/info.xml

Line 36 in 84df9fd

<lib min-version="2.7.8">libxml</lib>

Nextcloud requires libxml2 >=2.7.0 .. but I have no clue why your 2.9.10 isn't used by php.