Zathura not viewing pdfs

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Hello,

Requirements:

I have Searched the forum for my issue and found nothing related or helpful
I have checked the Resources category (Resources Index)
I have reviewed the Wiki for relevant information
I have read the the Release Notes and Errata

OpenMandriva Lx version:

OpenMandriva Lx release 25.06 (ROME) Rolling for x86_64

Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…):

Hyprland 0.48.1

Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):

When I try to open any pdf file with zathura, it does not open, the output in the terminal is as follows:

error: could not open plugin directory: /usr/lib64/zathura
error: Found no plugins. Please install at least one plugin.
error: Could not determine file type.

When I try to search for other zathura packages in the repos nothing comes up except the app.

Relevant informations (hardware involved, software version, logs or output…):

Zathura is on version 0.5.2-1

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Their website says you need to install the plugins manually.
https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura-pdf-poppler/

$ git clone GitHub - pwmt/zathura-pdf-poppler: PDF support for zathura (poppler)
$ cd zathura-pdf-poppler
$ git checkout --track -b develop origin/develop
$ mkdir build
$ meson build
$ cd build
$ ninja
$ ninja install

I’m not sure if all of the syntax is supported by OML.

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At this point i get this error:

❯ meson build
The Meson build system
Version: 1.7.2
Source dir: /home/humam/.applications/zathura-pdf-poppler
Build dir: /home/humam/.applications/zathura-pdf-poppler/build
Build type: native build
Project name: zathura-pdf-poppler
Project version: 0.3.3
C compiler for the host machine: cc (clang 19.1.7-1 "OpenMandriva 19.1.7-1 clang version 19.1.7 (/builddir/build/BUILD/llvm-19.1.7-build/llvm-project-llvmorg-19.1.7/clang f6577d7ceed75def4c4c7db30fa2d30a053fc852)")
C linker for the host machine: cc ld.lld 19.1.7-1
Host machine cpu family: x86_64
Host machine cpu: x86_64
Found pkg-config: YES (/sbin/pkg-config) 2.1.1
Dependency zathura found: NO. Found 0.5.2 but need: '>=0.5.3'
Found CMake: /sbin/cmake (4.0.1)
Run-time dependency zathura found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
Looking for a fallback subproject for the dependency zathura
Cloning into 'zathura'...
fatal: unable to access 'https://git.pwmt.org/pwmt/zathura.git/': Could not resolve host: git.pwmt.org
ERROR: Subproject zathura is buildable: NO

meson.build:18:10: ERROR: Git command failed: ['/sbin/git', 'clone', 'https://git.pwmt.org/pwmt/zathura.git', 'zathura']

even though zathura is installed on my system. should i just build both from source?

and the full logs

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maybe i should just open a package request for the pdf extenstion?

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that error is saying that your version of zathura is too old. Go ahead and make a package request for the plugin and someone should notice the outdated zathura package too.

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The Zathura package currently on GitHub seems even older, v0.5.12.
Opening an Issue report here may help, as well:

I also wonder about that

At the pwmt site, quite a few of the “supported” versions of Linux links are 404s, most notably the Fedora version.

The meson build script there only goes up to v0.5.12:

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Interesting tbh. Will open an issue for the ext to be added as @LeeTalbert suggested.

thanks to you two and have a nice day : )

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