[Gambas-user] Complex Extra Dependency

[John Rose]

Tobi,

I wanted to see if anyone had run into this issue before. That was why I 
was vague.

If I create the installation package without specifying gnome-panel as 
an Extra Dependency but run 'sudo apt-get install 
--no-install-recommends gnome-panel' before installing the app (from the 
created installation package), everything is fine.

As you say, it would be useful to know if the"--no-install-recommends" 
option could be implemented in the Extra Dependencies step so that a 
user could install the app without running the above sudo apt-get 
commend. Any comments about this facility being made available in Gambas?

Regards,
John

On 14/02/13 17:47, Tobias Boege wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, John Rose wrote:
>> I thought that I'd just ask this question again.
>>
>> I have written an app in Gambas 3.3.4 & want to make an installation
>> package for Ubuntu. The app has a dependency of gnome-panel which must
>> be installed by:
>> sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gnome-panel
>> according to
>> UnityLaunchersAndDesktopFiles - Community Ubuntu Documentation
>> <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UnityLaunchersAndDesktopFiles>
>> which states that:
>> It is important to install gnome-panel using the following command 'sudo
>> apt-get install --no-install-recommends gnome-panel', so as not to
>> install the recommended not-needed packets along with it.
>>
>> If I put gnome-panel in the Extra Dependencies step, it would presumably
>> effectively be sudo apt-get install gnome-panel?
>>
>> What should I do?
>>
> Are sure that you can actually accomplish what you want, namely that the
> dependency _can_ be installed with the --no-install-recommends argument? I
> don't know the format of .deb packages. If you know better, please say it so
> that one can estimate the effort to implement it.
>
> Regards,
> Tobi
>
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