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

[From: Asko Kauppi]

the link seems to be lacking the final 'l', this works:

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


Marius Vollmer kirjoitti 19.7.2005 kello 13.17:

> 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...)
>