[M3devel] Installing on Ubuntu Trusty Tahr

[Elmar Stellnberger]

If it is a true .deb you need to apply 
> ar x xy.deb
and then
> tar -xvJ <~/aux/data.tar.xz

(A real  .deb will also contain a control .tar.gz with control, shlibs, md5sums, postinst, etc.)

It should be built with
> pushd BUILD
> dpkg-buildpackage -sa -kmy at email.org
> popd
and checked with
> lintian -EvIL +pedantic my.dsc


Am 28.05.2014 um 08:42 schrieb Jay K:

> .deb is just a .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 or .tar.xz with a little bit more around it.
> They can be fancy but ours is not, it is just a compressed .tar.
> Can you just crack it open and install the underlying parts?
> It is likely "position independent" and you can extract it anywhere in your file system -- /usr/local/cm3, $HOME/cm3, etc.
> 
> I build them pretty "manually" see here:
> https://dcvs.elegosoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cm3/scripts/python/pylib.py  
> the function MakeDebianPackage
> Ok, it is an actually an "ar" file, and inside the main thing is data.tar with some compression like .gz or .xz.
> 
>  - Jay
> 
> From: dragisha at m3w.org
> Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 19:49:28 +0200
> To: bruceax at gmail.com
> CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] Installing on Ubuntu Trusty Tahr
> 
> It looks like it is external to cm3 anything. But maybe .deb is incorrect in some subtle way.
> --
> Dragiša Durić
> dragisha at m3w.org
> 
> 
> 
> On 29 Apr 2014, at 15:01, bruce axtens <bruceax at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am having difficulty installing cm3-LINUXLIBC6-REL.deb on Trusty? When I try to install it with Ubuntu Software Centre I get told the following:
> 
> Lintian check results for /home/bruce/Downloads/cm3-LINUXLIBC6-REL.deb:
> Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at /usr/share/perl5/
> Lintian/Collect/Package.pm line 513, <$_[...]> line 7562.
> 
> Is this a Perl issue or an installer issue?
> 
> -- Bruce

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