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[Linux, DEB] Possible installation warnings on some distributions #88

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I've downloaded both GTK and Qt version of deb package for PeaZip 3.8.2 and 
they're both reported broken by the software manager on Ubuntu  11.04 (e.g. 
http://p.defau.lt/?VVPzEvQ9QgSEfDg1uCEGNA ).
If errors are ignored, Qt version doesn't even start: 
http://p.defau.lt/?qC434TWICuyOS_xmpETMxA
Qt version is 4:4.7.2-0ubuntu6.2.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by nemow...@gmail.com on 14 Jul 2011 at 10:28

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The Lintian error message correctly reports an unusual situation: an arch 
independent package contains executable files. This is unusual (not wrong per 
se) as arch independent packages usually contains sources and documentation, 
not executables.
If you ignore that warning, the installation can complete correctly.
I chose to deploy PeaZip as arch independent package as most users were not 
aware how to install it on x64 Linux systems forcing architecture check, and I 
would not like to provide separate packages for i86 and x64 as it would double 
the number of packages to deploy and maintain for Linux at each version 
(currently, 8). Moreover, I felt it was not fine to deploy it in packages 
specifically marked as x64, as most of the binaries still needs ia32-libs to 
run.

The second problem, with Qt version, is that was not possible for the installer 
to correctly configure libQt4Pas.so.5 on your system.
I provide libQt4Pas.so.5 in the same directory of PeaZip binary in order to 
help users manually fixing the problem, as different Linux distributions (or 
differently configured machines) would require a specific installer.

As I recommend in PeaZip for Linux page, I only provide generic Linux packages, 
meant to be feasible to run on as many distributions and versions as possible, 
not to support a specific distribution and release as smoothly as posible.
For this reason users should contact their distribution's maintainer and ask 
for deploying specific installers of PeaZip, targeting a specific 
distribution/version.

Original comment by giorgio.tani.software@gmail.com on 14 Jul 2011 at 10:59

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Added DEB package targeted to i386 architecture in order to avoid some package 
checker to report warnings if noarc packages are used: 
http://www.peazip.org/download-linux-gtk2-deb32bit.html

Original comment by giorgio.tani.software@gmail.com on 25 Oct 2011 at 3:03

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by giorgio.tani.software@gmail.com on 28 Mar 2013 at 1:41