Re: packaging post script glitch.

[gbWilly <gbWilly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, December 12th, 2025 at 15:21, Bruce Steers <bsteers4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> seems i have found a glitch in the debian/ubuntu post script willy.
>
> i got errors when installing on a docker that has a minimal system, no user (only root) and no gui environment...
>
> Installing from OBS stable repo (noble) running 'apt install gambas3'
> it seemed to install okay but gave this error at the end...
>
> Setting up gambas3 (3.21.1+20251120+1-1) ...
> xdg-desktop-menu: No writable system menu directory found.

Yeah, seems logical that a non gui system has no system menu.
When you install gambas3 on a non gui system, you do realize you are installing a ton of gui enironment libraries. Why would you do that on a minimal non gui system, I don't get it.

gambas3 installs the IDE and all needed to create applications, so all components.
It is meant to be installed on a development system, being a gui system.

> dpkg: error processing package gambas3 (--configure):
> installed gambas3 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 3
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> gambas3
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> Then apt seemed broken as it kept giving me the error if installing anything else.
>
> I had a look online and it's apparently a bug in xdg.
>
> it is fixed by first creating the dir it is looking for @ /usr/share/desktop-directories
>
> maybe add this line...
> [ -e /usr/share/desktop-directories ] || mkdir /usr/share/desktop-directories

If that prevents trouble, then it should be added.

Thanks

gbWilly

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