Re: autopackage installer - missing dependency

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Ferenc Wagner writes:


> I hope so...  So, after removing Lilypond 2.7.7 and the
> guile-1.6 Debian packages, trying the 'loes' package:

> # Checking for Guile ... seq: invalid floating point argument: org/lilypond:26
> Try `seq --help' for more information.
> failed   
> # FAIL:  Could not find 'Guile'. Try using the native package manager for  
> (apt) to install a package with similar name to 'guile'. 
> FAIL:  Unable to prepare package LilyPond.

Thanks.  I was able to reproduce this only partly, after the seq error
Guile and LilyPond just install over here.  Do you have older versions
than 1.0.6 of autopackage installed, in ~/.local/share/autopackage/ or
in /usr/share/autopackage ?

> Ugh.  Looks like some more experimentation is in order.  Let
> me know if I can help with testing.

Great:

    http://lilypond.org/~janneke/loes/lilypond-2.7.8.x86.package

This is with a relocatable guile-1.6-CVS.  It should work with or
without guile-1.6.7 installed.

> Btw, isn't it overkill to include Guile in the distribution?
> Lilypond doesn't require a particularly fresh version, so why
> bother?

We need guile-1.6.7, ie, 1.6.4 does not work.  That makes checking
rather ugly, just checking for libguile.so.12.3 does not work.

I just realize now that if we require 1.7.x, everyone needs our guile.
That's not so great either.

Jan.

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