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geekydude

Does anybody know How to convert Ubuntu packages to Xandros packages?
The problem with these packages is they mostly rely on KDE 3.5.
I haven't figured out how to get them to behave with KDE 3.4.

Any Deb wizards out there know how to do this? Confused

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jimallyn · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:29 pm Post subject:

You can build them with apt-get -b source <yourapp> as described by aldube here:

http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?t=21131

But how to get around the KDE 3.5 requirement, I do not know.

Jim
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geekydude · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:57 pm Post subject:

redrum · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:58 pm Post subject:

The easiest way to see if a package will even work is to unpack the archive, delete any dependencies from the control file, rebuild it and then install it and see if it will work (I recommend using vmware and using a fresh Xandros install with a Snapshot so one can revert back to the snapshot if the program doesn't work... This keeps you from killing your own box)... If it doesn't it will usually complain about missing shared libraries. You can make symbolic links to existing libraries and sometimes 'trick' the program to use them instead... If that works, then you make a new package that includes the links and then write the dependencies in to reflect what is needed using version numbers that are relevant to Xandros...

Really, its best to recompile the programs from scratch, if possible, instead of repackaging another Distro's files. Obviously there are reasons to use this approach as well though...
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geekydude · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:50 pm Post subject:

jimallyn · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:06 pm Post subject:

geekydude, have you read the Debian New Maintainer's Guide yet? It does have some discussion of that.

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geekydude · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:24 pm Post subject:

jimallyn · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:15 pm Post subject:

I can see this will be a long learning process to master this stuff!

Jim
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redrum · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject:

One tool that works very well at allowing you to extract the contents of a .deb or .rpm file is already built into your system... The Xandros file manager.. Simply right-click the file, click open with, chose Xandros File Manager, and it will open the archive.

Then make a folder on the desktop, name it to the name of the package you intend to build (minus the .deb part) and open the folder.. In other words, if you have a package called folderarchive-x.x.x--i386.deb, make a folder called folderarchive-x.x.x--i386.deb.
Then copy the DEBIAN folder and the contents of the CONTENTS (but not the folder itself) to that folder... RPMS will not have the same structure as debs, so it is usally easier to convert the package with alien first and then use the converted archive as your reference.

To rebuild the package, cd to your Desktop and type dpkg -b folderarchive-x.x.x--i386 where folderarchive-x.x.x--i386 represents the name of the folder you made.. It will rebuild it then.. Pretty slick, huh?
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geekydude · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:42 pm Post subject: