Re: DMD2 .deb fails to install on Ubuntu 10.10 – just remove »shell«?

[Seth Hoenig]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Russel Winder <russel at russel.org.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 17:29 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
> > Walter Bright wrote:
> > > Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> > >> This seems pretty urgent. Walter?
> > >
> > > I asked Jordi, who prepares the .deb files.
> >
> > Should the binaries be installed on /usr/local/bin instead?
>
> No.  The whole point of debs is that you have a managed /usr/bin where
> all the binaries go.  Clearly this means you have to have executable
> names that are not the same as any other package in either Debian or
> Ubuntu.  Clearly, in general, this is impossible.  However, people just
> get on and do the impossible anyway.
>
> If /usr/lib is used, the same holds.
>
> Other stuff should be going in /usr/share/dmd and /usr/share/doc/dmd
> which do not suffer the same naming issues, unless someone else is
> distributing a dmd package.
>
> I can't use the debs at the moment as they are for i386, and I only deal
> in amd64.  As soon as amd64 debs are produced I will start using them
> instead of having my lash-up install so as to use 32-bit materials on a
> 64-bit system.
>


Ah but you can!

sudo aptitude install gcc-multilib libc6-i386 lib6-dev-i386

sudo aptitude install ia32-libs

sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture [dmdpackage]



>
> The project should consider building Ubuntu debs using Bazaar and
> Launchpad via a DMD PPA.  It would be good if gcd also used this route.
>
> Anthony Williams builds debs for Just::Thread that are targeted at
> Ubuntu but also happen to work on Debian.
>
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> Russel.
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