I just upgraded vicious from 2.0.3 to 2.1.0. At the same time I enabled the contrib useflag. Then I updated my awesome config file according to awesome’s upgrade guide. The vicious package installs all widget files into /usr/share/awesome/lib/vicious/widgets/. Trying to load a widget using the following commands in my awesome rc.lua file: ramstatus = wibox.widget.textbox() vicious.cache(vicious.widgets.mem) vicious.register(ramstatus, vicious.widgets.mem, ...) I get the following error when awesome loads: /usr/share/awesome/lib/vicious/helpers.lua:38: module 'vicious.contrib.mem' not found: no field package.preload['vicious.contrib.mem'] no file './vicious/contrib/mem.lua' no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/vicious/contrib/mem.lua' no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/vicious/contrib/mem/init.lua' no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/vicious/contrib/mem.lua' no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/vicious/contrib/mem/init.lua' no file '/usr/share/lua/5.1/vicious/contrib/mem.lua' no file '/usr/share/lua/5.1/vicious/contrib/mem/init.lua' no file '/home/frank/.config/awesome/vicious/contrib/mem.lua' no file '/home/frank/.config/awesome/vicious/contrib/mem/init.lua' no file '/etc/xdg/awesome/vicious/contrib/mem.lua' no file '/etc/xdg/awesome/vicious/contrib/mem/init.lua' no file '/usr/share/awesome/lib/vicious/contrib/mem.lua' no file '/usr/share/awesome/lib/vicious/contrib/mem/init.lua' no file './vicious/contrib/mem.so' no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/vicious/contrib/mem.so' no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.1/vicious/contrib/mem.so' no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so' no file './vicious.so' no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/vicious.so' no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.1/vicious.so' no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so' Obviously, vicious is not looking in the right places. However, when I reinstall vicious without the contrib use flag, the error is gone and awesome loads as expected.
The contrib widgets were installed in the wrong place. This should be fixed in =vicious-2.1.0-r1 Thanks for reporting :)