On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:22:16 -0700 (PDT) varun_shrivastava <varun.celunite@gmail.com> wrote: > > hi > > i have made a package which is a simple gtk application. > it depends on gtk-directfb-2.0.so.0 , > i included this library in the depends field in control file. That should be the -dev version of that package. libgtk-directfb-2.0-dev > after creating the package when i try to install it using dpkg -i > it displays following error > > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of clock: > clock depends on libgtk-directfb-2.0 (>= 2.2); however: > Package libgtk-directfb-2.0 is not installed. $ sudo apt-get install libgtk-directfb-2.0-0 > the package is installed at /usr/local/lib but i did a make install You should not mix packaging systems - you still need to install the libgtk-directfb-2.0-dev binary package (which will bring in the libgtk-directfb-2.0-0 package as a dependency) using dpkg (via apt or aptitude). You must also ensure that your package builds against this version so that it will build on other Debian systems, including the autobuilders. dpkg cannot be expected to work with software that is installed directly from upstream source instead of from a Debian binary. > for this > library, i haven't installed it from a gtk-directfb package. Why not? You need to install the package in order to install any packages that use it. > Also i found > that as i have manually installed it, there is no gtk.shlibs file at > /var/lib/dpkg/info/, so i manually wrote a shlibs.local file in debian/ > directory for my package. > but still i get this error Stop working around the lack of the Debian binary - install the binary from the Debian mirrors and if your package doesn't build against it, fix your package so that it does. If there is a bug in the Debian package that prevents your package from working, rebuild libgtk-directfb-2.0-0 from source, create a patch to fix that bug and report it to the Debian bug tracking system. You cannot expect to be able to install your package via dpkg if you have not also installed *all* the dependencies of that package via dpkg. Either you use: Debian --> libgtk-directfb-2.0-0 (/usr/local/) --> clock (/usr/local) or Debian ==> libgtk-directfb-2.0-0 (Debian) ==> clock (dpkg install) You cannot expect it to work as: Debian --> libgtk-directfb-2.0-0 (/usr/local/) ==> clock (dpkg install) (where --> represents building the upstream source directly and ==> represents installing a Debian package.) -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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