[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Aplication installer

[From: Marius Vollmer]

"ext Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho" <renato.filho at indt.org.br> writes:

> i have a problem with the deb package.
> The package has some dependencies, but the aplication installer does not
> accept dependencies other than maemo
> so i can install the package abiword if the libglade2 is not installed
> for example.

That is right.  The Application Manager is not up to the task of real
package management, unfortunately.  It can deal with dependencies in
the sense that it refuses to install packages with unsatisfied
dependencies, but it can not automatically find packages that would
satisfy them, like apt can, for example.

Also, a package that is meant to be installed with the Application
Installer must be specifically constructed for this.  See

http://maemo.org/platform/docs/howtos/howto_making_an_application_package.htm

for more information.

If you can, you should use apt-get or dpkg directly to install real
packages.  (I don't know: is AbiWord a Application Installer package
or a regular package?  I guess it is a regular package.)

So the general rule is: if the installation instructions of some
package to not specifically state that you should use the Application
Installer to install it, ignore the Application Installer completely.

(Expect most of this to change for the better...)