Thanks Vladislav, I checked out that site. Seems like that is pretty much the way I created the packages, so I must have done something right. But still the application doesn't show up at the menu after installation. This is what I have in the [package].links file...
<br><br>/var/lib/install/usr/share/applications/hildon/[package].desktop /etc/others-menu/extra_applications/001_[package].desktop<br><br>I've replaced the package name with [package]. Is this "package.links" file a maemo specific thing? I couldn't find any info about it besides the maemo site. And maemo site also says that I shouldn't use any maintainer scripts like postinst or prerm, that are presented in the tutorial that Vladislav posted.
<br><br>- Teemu<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2006/2/18, Vladislav Grinchenko <<a href="mailto:3rdshift@comcast.net">3rdshift@comcast.net</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Teemu,<br><br>check out this page - it might be useful:<br><br><a href="http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Build_a_Debian_Package">http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Build_a_Debian_Package</a><br><br>On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 06:55, Teemu Harju wrote:
<br>> Hi,<br>><br>> I've been trying to create application installer friendly .deb<br>> packages from Pyhon applications and I'm having problems with getting<br>> the symlinks work so that the application would appear in the extras
<br>> menu. What I've done is that I have a directory that contains the<br>> python files placed in correct directories. For example python<br>> libraries are in usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages and executables are
<br>> in usr/bin. In the same directory I also have DEBIAN directory that<br>> contains "control" and " package-name.links" files. I've created the<br>> .deb package using "dpkg-deb -b" command for that directory. Package
<br>> is created just fine and it also installs on the device and the<br>> application works fine, but the symlinks defined in "<br>> package-name.links" don't get created. Am I doing something wrong? I
<br>> don't have much experience about Debian packages.<br>><br>> Thanks,<br>><br>> Teemu<br>><br>> --<br>> Teemu Harju<br>> <a href="http://www.teemuharju.net">http://www.teemuharju.net</a><br>
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