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

[From: Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho]

Marius Vollmer wrote:
> "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...)
> 

Hi,

I made the abiword port to maemo, and i will make the deb package. The
problem is that the package has some dependencies (libfribidi,
libglade2, libgnomeprintui) that are not installed in maemo base. How do
you suggest to solve this problem?