[maemo-developers] Creating a simple installer

[From: Ross Burton]

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 09:38 +0200, Michael Stepanov wrote:
> I'd like to provide for users a simplest way to install my
> application. As I know Application Manager just display the error
> about missing dependencies but not install them automatically (at
> least in OS2007)! So, I'd like to create some installer which add all
> needed repositories and install all needed dependencies without user
> interaction. I found some example of  osso-xterm
> ( http://maemotalk.feelslikeburning.com/2006/04/27/metapackage-osso-xterm/). It includes binaries of following packages - osso-xterm, tiny-vim, slocate and openSSH. But in my case I prefer not put all needed binaries into one package because it'll make maintaining of them too difficult. 
> 
> As I understand *.install file can contain one package only. Or I'm
> wrong? If it allows to specify there more than one package it'll be
> enough for me.

The application manager can install dependencies (my Tasks package
depends on four other packages, which all get installed correctly).  Is
the problem that the dependencies you want to install are in another
repository?

One way of debugging this is to install your application from a terminal
using apt-get, this will give you decent error messages.

Ross
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