Is it only me or anyone else having this error with GNOME 47.2?

Desktop Environments Gnome
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i have gnome-browser-connector installed too and i dont think its the issue from my end, ive tried reinstalling , rebooting, basically everything but nothing worked

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I’m seeing the same thing. Will look into it.

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i thought , what a noob am i but then i tried everything and nothing seems to work , i tried to install the git version from AUR it fails due to not finding mesonbuild python package

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so either ways even if you try to use it from chrome by installing chrome-gnome-shell it would fail anyways

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==> Starting prepare()...
==> Starting pkgver()...
==> Updated version: gnome-browser-connector-git 421.r673.7e526a1-1
==> Sources are ready.
==> Making package: gnome-browser-connector-git 421.r673.7e526a1-1 (Monday 23 December 2024 07:04:42 PM)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> WARNING: Using existing $srcdir/ tree
==> Starting pkgver()...
==> Removing existing $pkgdir/ directory...
==> Starting build()...
+ exec meson setup --prefix /usr --libexecdir lib --sbindir bin --buildtype plain --auto-features enabled --wrap-mode nodownload -D b_pie=true -D python.bytecompile=1 gnome-browser-connector build
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/meson", line 5, in <module>
    from mesonbuild.mesonmain import main
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'mesonbuild'
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
 -> error making: gnome-browser-connector-git-exit status 4
 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required:
gnome-browser-connector-git - exit status 4
[rudy@lazer ~]$
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The git version installed for me, but no change. I removed & reinstalled the browser addon without any change. This problem is showing up in Firefox, Firefox-Nightly & Google Chrome.

I went to gitlab & found this: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-browser-extension/-/issues/66 I added a comment to the report.

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What command did produce the output you are showing? Please always include the full command in your post.

I just tried to build gnome-browser-connector-git and it works without any error or warning.

EDIT
And I have no issues with gnome-browser-connector 42.1-7 either

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Which meson package have you installed?

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Interesting…I’m having problems with both versions in all browsers. I’ve tried Chrome-based & Firefox-based. I update almost daily, so maybe this is a real current problem.

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which version of the GNOME Shell-Integration have you installed in firefox?

For me it is version 12 last updated 18. July 2024.

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SOLUTION:

ADD - #!/usr/bin/env python3 instead of the current python thingy at the top in /usr/bin/meson and rebuild gnome-browser-connector package by reinstalling it either from AUR or pacman its a meson problem not gnome problem and not our problem

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That does not sound right.
python is a link to python3 in /usr/bin

╰─# ls -l /usr/bin/python                                              
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2024-12-04@19:05 /usr/bin/python -> python3

Is your system missing that link?

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Yes…Version 12, same as you. My Python link is the same as yours also.

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That actually worked i tried to seperate python and build the package again it fails but with python3 it works , it just works