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Title: "this Package Seems To Depend......
Post by: guscpu on April 13, 2008, 06:57:41 pm

"This package seems to depend on other packages. Please install them too"

lol How on earth am i supposed to figure out what its talking about as the packages I downloaded didn't come with a txt file to point out dependencies.

Gus  

Title: "this Package Seems To Depend......
Post by: guscpu on April 13, 2008, 07:26:20 pm

Quote from: guscpu

"This package seems to depend on other packages. Please install them too"

lol How on earth am i supposed to figure out what its talking about as the packages I downloaded didn't come with a txt file to point out dependencies.

Gus  

Could this be the answer I am looking for?

http://www.users.on.net/~hluc/myZaurus/custom.html#kismet (http://www.users.on.net/~hluc/myZaurus/custom.html#kismet)

Title: "this Package Seems To Depend......
Post by: Jon_J on April 14, 2008, 12:05:53 pm

Meanie's site is full of useful information.
If you install a package in Cacko/Sharp and get the above message, just uninstall it, then open a console and install it this way. Then you'll get more useful messages as to what the dependencies are.

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ipkg install /home/Documents/Install_Files/packagename.ipkYour path to your new package may be different, just change the path accordingly.

Another method to find dependencies, is to search the forum, or find a feed that has the same package and download the "Packages" file.
The "Packages" file is just a text file and should have a description and dependencies listed for your package.
If you use Windows to try to read the "Packages" file, just open it in wordpad, and copy/paste it to notepad and save as Packages.txt
Wordpad will convert the utf8 text formatting to something you can read in windows.

Title: "this Package Seems To Depend......
Post by: guscpu on April 14, 2008, 12:07:43 pm

Quote from: Jon_J

Meanie's site is full of useful information.
If you install a package in Cacko/Sharp and get the above message, just uninstall it, then open a console and install it this way. Then you'll get more useful messages as to what the dependencies are.

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ipkg install /home/Documents/Install_Files/packagename.ipkYour path to your new package may be different, just change the path accordingly.

Anopther method to find dependencies, is to search the forum, or find a feed that has the same package and download the "Packages" file.
The "Packages" file should have a description and dependencies listed for your package.

You are a life saver and a genius

Title: "this Package Seems To Depend......
Post by: sdjf on April 15, 2008, 01:23:28 am

What ever happened to the simplicity of just running the standard "ldd" command?

http://sdjf.esmartdesign.com/commands/ldd.html (http://sdjf.esmartdesign.com/commands/ldd.html)

It doesn't come on the Z, but is easy to get and use.

sdjf

Title: "this Package Seems To Depend......
Post by: gojira on April 15, 2008, 07:52:24 am

Quote from: sdjf

What ever happened to the simplicity of just running the standard "ldd" command?

it's not useful if you can't find the name and version of the package that contains a suitable copy of the missing shared library, or if the dependency isn't a shared library at all but something else

fortunately, the package dependencies are stored in the package file:

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tar zxOf whatever.ipk ./control.tar.gz | tar zxOf - ./control | grep '^Depends: '

Title: "this Package Seems To Depend......
Post by: sdjf on April 17, 2008, 04:29:42 am

Okay, thanks, I guess it only simplifies some of the time.

sdjf