Re: [Gnumed-devel] re : installation

[David Grant]

sjtan wrote:

> > installation
> > - hack the proposed installers
> > - http://trific.ath.cx/resources/python/
> > Sebastian
> I've just tried to re-install gnumed dependencies and it was fairly 
> difficult
> on Mandrake 9.1 (e.g. as well as ensuring postgresql-devel , lipdq3, 
> egenix-2.0.5 ,
> pyPgSQL -7.3 that matched the os vendor /version,  had to slightly 
> change setup.py
> in pyPgSQL-7.3 to recognize sys.platform >= "linux" on line 101 of 
> setup.py in
> the pyPgSQL-7.3-src , as the python system return "linux-i386" instead 
> of "linux2"
> ) ;
> - does Debian apt-get  only work on Debian ?  Should there be 
> installation scripts
> for various platforms and versions?
> - is there a tool for distributed package retrieval and installation 
> which could be scripted
> to do this?
These kinds of problems have existed with RPM systems for years.  This 
is usually why people switch to Debian in the first place, they get 
pissed off with the innadequate handling of dependancies.

If the RPM/spec or whatever for gnumed on Mandrake is written properly 
though, urpmi should work reasonably well.  There are also some other 
programs like apt-rpm or something like that.  But apt-get works 
strictly for dpkg and to get apt-get to install a deb for Mandrake would 
require a different deb.  Not worth the effort.

>

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