.deb package and automatic installation of dependencies.

Hello,

I have created a .deb package for my gscreendump program. The building of package seems to be ok, but when I run it, it fails to install any depending packages/libraries.

How to make all dependencies to be automatically installed with the program itself?

This is what happens: $ sudo dpkg -i gscreendump_0.1_amd64.deb

Selecting previously deselected package gscreendump. (Reading database ... 116499 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking gscreendump (from gscreendump_0.1_amd64.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gscreendump: gscreendump depends on libgtkimageview0 (>= 1.6.1); however: Package libgtkimageview0 is not installed. gscreendump depends on imagemagick; however: Package imagemagick is not installed. dpkg: error processing gscreendump (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: gscreendump ------------------

I have to run "sudo apt-get install -f" afterwards to rectify bad package database. Then everything is OK and gscreendump runs well.

The Depends line in debian/control file looks like this: Depends: ${shlibs: Depends}, imagemagick, gnome-web-photo

Here is my current (test) source http://www.edbl.no/tmp/gscreendump_0.1.tar.gz ----------

2) Setting up a menu item or icon. How to make .deb package to setup menuitem or icon? The package already contains a gscreendump.desktop file.

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Hello,

It seems to me that a Debian/Ubuntu packages shall not manage dependencies automatically when they are installed from command line via [COLOR="Green"]dpkg -i packagename.deb. [/COLOR]

But Apt (or Aptitude) that is used by Synaptic and apt-get commands will and shall install all dependencies automatically. These commands have also access to repositories while Dpkg is standing on its own.

[COLOR="Red"]Uma pergunta/Question:[/COLOR] Can I use "debian/preinst" script to install missing packages? Where are you? Wake up people! Holidays are over.

See also: http://code.google.com/p/gscreendump/

moma said: Hello,

It seems to me that a Debian/Ubuntu packages shall not manage dependencies automatically when they are installed from command line via [COLOR="Green"]dpkg -i packagename.deb. [/COLOR] I'm pretty sure dpkg -i doesn't install dependencies automatically, try using gdebi or gdebi-gtk.