[Gambas-user] can't install my home-made-package, due to the dependencies

[Tobias Boege]

On Thu, 03 Oct 2013, Charlie Reinl wrote:
> Salut,
> 
> on Ubuntu 10.04 I tried to install my home-made-package, but I can't,
> due to the dependencies.
> 
> Against what the gambas3-runtime is checked? I thought gbx3.
> 
> But I never had installed any gambas from a package, always complied
> from source code.
> 
> Where do I wrong.
> 
> @Scenic:~/gambas/3/myLib/Comp/Ziel$ dpkg -I
> a-timepicker_0.0.6-1_all.deb 
>  neues Debian-Paket, Version 2.0.
>  Gr????e 14060 Byte: control-Archiv= 680 Byte.
>      307 Byte,    10 Zeilen      control              
>      697 Byte,     9 Zeilen      md5sums              
>  Package: a-timepicker
>  Version: 0.0.6-1
>  Architecture: all
>  Maintainer: a<Karl.Reinl at ...9...>
>  Installed-Size: 100
>  Depends: gambas3-runtime (>= 3.0.90), gambas3-runtime (<< 3.99.0)
>  Section: contrib/devel
>  Priority: optional
>  Description: a TimePicker
>   This is a Gambas component written in Gambas
> 
> 
> @Scenic:~/gambas/3/myLib/Comp/Ziel$ gbx3 -V
> 3.4.90 r5866
> 

I don't use Ubuntu and haven't seriously tried to create an installation
package for a Gambas program yet but my guess is the following: When you
create an installation package from the Gambas IDE, you create a package
for a particular package manager. On Ubuntu, this would be dpkg, right?

The package manager sees the dependencies which the IDE included in the
package and needs to resolve them before installing the program, naturally.
A package manager only knows of packages which are installed by itself. It
doesn't know that you already have installed per Makefile what is included
in the gambas3-runtime package. So this is a problem.

I remember that I once faced this at school, too (we had an Arch Linux
computer lab). The solution was to create packages for the package manager
from the SVN repository and install them (instead of doing make install).
This is an expensive business to set up and you have luck on Ubuntu because
Sebi, IIRC, offers daily built packages of trunk through PPA[0].

If I didn't get some easy relations here - as I said, package management is
nothing I'm that familiar with -, I'd be glad if someone corrected me.

Regards,
Tobi

[0] https://launchpad.net/~sebikul/+archive/gambas-daily

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