A Fix for GUI not launching in some cases and dependency management (#826)

* proposing addition of libgirepository-2.0-dev and PyGObject for GUI not launching on Linux mint and similar distros

* Update auto-cpufreq-installer

* here are the proposed changes, please make changes necessary

* rev of prescribed changes

* rev

* formatting

Author: kirmola

auto-cpufreq-installer

@@ -76,9 +76,19 @@ function tool_install {
     header "Setting up Python environment"
   }
 
-  if [ -f /etc/debian_version ]; then
-    detected_distro "Debian based"
-    apt install python3-dev python3-pip python3-venv python3-setuptools dmidecode libgirepository1.0-dev libcairo2-dev libgtk-3-dev gcc -y
+  if [ -f /etc/debian_version ]; then  
+    VERSION=$(cat /etc/debian_version)  
+    # VERSION="CSCS"
+    if [[ "$VERSION" =~ ^12(\.[0-9]+)?$ || ("$VERSION" =~ ^[0-9]+$ && "$VERSION" -lt 12) ]]; then  
+        LIB_GI_REPO="libgirepository1.0-dev"
+    else  
+        LIB_GI_REPO="libgirepository-2.0-dev"
+    fi
+
+    echo $LIB_GI_REPO needs to be installed for version $VERSION
+    echo '---- '
+    apt install -y python3-dev python3-pip python3-venv python3-setuptools dmidecode \
+    "$LIB_GI_REPO" libcairo2-dev libgtk-3-dev gcc
 
   elif [ -f /etc/redhat-release ]; then
     detected_distro "RedHat based"
@@ -132,6 +142,17 @@ elif [ -f /etc/os-release ];then
   source "$venv_dir/bin/activate"
   python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip wheel
 
+
+  # debian specific PyGObject Installation
+  if [ -f /etc/debian_version ]; then  
+    VERSION=$(cat /etc/debian_version | cut -d'.' -f1)  
+
+    if [[ "$VERSION" =~ ^12(\.[0-9]+)?$ ]]; then 
+        python3 -m pip install PyGObject==3.50.0
+    fi
+  fi
+  python3 -m pip install PyGObject
+
   header "Installing auto-cpufreq tool"
 
   git config --global --add safe.directory $(pwd)