[maemo-developers] Creating a simple installer

[From: Rafael Proença]

>
> Application manager will only handle dependencies if you install from a
> repository. If you try to install the same .deb using install from file, it
> will not follow dependencies.
>

In this case I think an important feature is missing. You could consider
implementing something like GDebi[0] does. It works like a front-end for
dpkg and when an .deb package installation is requested it looks for missing
dependencies, download and install them from the system's repository
(regular sources.list). Feature that I thought the Maemo Aplication Manager
had already.

Some time ago I was thinking of, some how, porting gdebi for maemo. Then I
realized that application manager is not open source and assumed that it had
this feature already.

Anyways, I still would be happy if Luciano ported python-apt for maemo :D

[0] https://edge.launchpad.net/gdebi

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Rafael Proença
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