[maemo-developers] How to to manually package Qt Mobility?

[From: Marius Vollmer]

ext Sascha Mäkelä <sascha.makela at gmail.com> writes:

> This is rather strange, since I was under the impression that apt-get
> would automatically download the missing packages.

(The following might not be entirely accurate since I have no experience
whatsoever with Ovi myself, and not much experience with the Fremantle
Application manager.)

There is unfortunately a big difference between installing a package
from a repository and installing a package from a single foo.deb file.
When installing a single foo.deb file, the Application Manager does
_not_ automatically install missing packages, it only does this when
installing packages from a repository.

Since Ovi delivers single foo.deb files to the device, their
dependencies are unfortunately not automatically satisfied.  You just
get an error that they are missing.


This clearly sucks, and it only works this way because I have pretty
much totally neglected installation from single deb files.  It's a
different code path in the Application Manager, and at least from me, it
didn't get any love.

The reason for this negligence is that I didn't think that anybody would
want to install single foo.deb files, and if I remember right, the
feature was actually disabled at some point.