[maemo-developers] Package dependency not automaticaly installed

[From: Jean-Luc Biord]

You have certainly right. But the "normal" user say "it doesn't work" 
then "good bye" !

> I'm having the same problem with maemo-stars and libglade2, this 
> package is on the maemo repository, and is correctly installable via 
> xterm apt-get but it fails through the application manager.
>
> I'm not sure, but I thinks this happens because libglade comes from a 
> repository not "trusted" and hence requires manual confirmation on 
> install (press Y from the command line and default to N).
>
> Maybe is the same case for you.
>
>
> 2007/2/24, Jean-Luc Biord <jl.biord at free.fr <mailto:jl.biord at free.fr>>:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     I have created the project xgalaga
>     (https://garage.maemo.org/projects/xgalaga/). The exe require the xpm
>     library to work. When i install the xgalaga package and libxpm4 is
>     not
>     already installed, an error message is displayed about the package
>     libxpm4 not installed. After this message, the package is not
>     installed
>     by the application manager.  It's curious because this package exists
>     and can be installed in a console logged sudo by the command "apt-get
>     install libxpm4". Who a new user can solve this problem !
>
>     My question is why the package required is not automaticaly
>     installed?
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