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Re: New Debian ROOT (5.09/01) packages for i386 unstable



Hi Charles, 

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 08:50 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 02:30:15PM +0100, Christian Holm Christensen wrote :
> > Hi ROOT'ers, Debian-Scientists, et al, 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> > If anyone has the possibility and are willing to try to compile the
> > packages on non-i386 platforms, please do so.   If you succeed, we
> > (Brett and I) can put them in the repository.    If you fail, I'll like
> > to know about it.   Please send a build log. 
> 
> Although, I know nothing about ROOT, 

See the package description, and http://root.cern.ch

It's widely used in High Energy Physics. 

> I tried to compile it on a G5
> powerpc64.

Great!

> First problem, apt-get build-dep does not pick the packages
> automatically:
> 
> charles@sorbet:~$ sudo apt-get build-dep root
> Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
> Construction de l'arbre des dépendances... Fait
> Le paquet libxpm4-dev est un paquet virtuel fourni par :
>   libxaw8-dev 6.9.0.dfsg.1-2
>   libxaw7-dev 6.9.0.dfsg.1-2
> Vous devez explicitement sélectionner un paquet à installer.
> Le paquet fortran-compiler est un paquet virtuel fourni par :
>   gfortran 4.0.2-2
>   g77 4:3.4.5-1
> Vous devez explicitement sélectionner un paquet à installer.
> E: Aucun paquet ne correspond au paquet libxpm4-dev
> E: Aucun paquet ne correspond au paquet fortran-compiler
> E: La dépendance Build-Depends vis-à-vis de root ne peut être satisfaite car le paquet libchirp-dev ne peut être trouvé

OK, I'm not _that_ good at French.  Could you translate or 

	export LANG=C

Thanks. 

> I then installed libxaw8 and g77 manually, but the build-dep still fails:
> 
> charles@sorbet:~$ sudo apt-get build-dep root
> Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
> Construction de l'arbre des dépendances... Fait
> E: La dépendance Build-Depends vis-à-vis de root ne peut être satisfaite car le paquet libchirp-dev ne peut être trouvé

libchirp-dev is a non-standard Debian package.    You can find it for
i386 at http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root. 

The newest source upload (5.09.01-2) does not depend on this package. 

> I am running a sid recently updated, I wanted to check wether libchirp-dev was in contrib or non-free, but packages.debian.org is down... 
> 
> I hope I was somehow helpful...

Very thanks.   Could I ask you to give the newest source package a go?
Thanks. 

Yours,

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