Re: [wsjt-devel] wsjtx_2.2.0-rc2_amd64.deb install fails on wsjtx_icon.png

Fri, 29 May 2020 13:43:14 -0700 

Hi BIll and Christoph...

This is the pleasures of the bleeding edge...when will I ever learn?

jeff

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 3:57 PM Bill Somerville <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
>
> you have two viable options, build from sources, or wait for the package
> maintainers to make WSJT-X 2.2.0 available for your distribution version.
> We, the WSJT-X development team, only build a single package targeted at
> one commonly used distribution version. Currently Ubuntu 20.4.0 has no easy
> upgrade path, nor are users of earlier versions informed that there is an
> upgrade available. That happens at the .1 release when we will switch to
> building our release package targeting 20.04.1 LTS.
>
> Building from sources is not hard, much easier than the option many will
> suggest of installing packages like libgfortran3 on a system that comes
> with libgfortran5.
>
> 73
> Bill
> G4WJS.
>
> On 29/05/2020 18:05, jeff millar wrote:
>
> Hi Bill and Christoph,
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Removing all the wsjtx packages improved the situation.  dpkg now installs
> wsjtx incompletely and leaves a broken package.  Ubuntu 20.04 has
> libgfortran5 by default, 4 is available and 3 is not.  For libreadline, 8
> is the default and 5 is available.
>
> Is there a way to fix this?
>
> jeff, wa1hco
>
> jeff@jeff-MS-7C02:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i wsjtx_2.2.0-rc3_amd64.deb
> (Reading database ... 259031 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack wsjtx_2.2.0-rc3_amd64.deb ...
> Unpacking wsjtx (2.2.0-rc3) over (2.2.0-rc3) ...
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wsjtx:
>  wsjtx depends on libgfortran3 (>= 4.8.2); however:
>   Package libgfortran3 is not installed.
>  wsjtx depends on libreadline7 (>= 6.0); however:
>   Package libreadline7 is not installed.
>
> dpkg: error processing package wsjtx (--install):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1) ...
> Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu2) ...
> Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) ...
> Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  wsjtx
> (
>
> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 6:17 AM Christoph Berg <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Re: Bill Somerville
>> > that looks like you have some other package installed in /usr/local
>> called
>> > wsjtx-data2.1.2+repack-2build1, I have no idea what that is, but
>> suggest you
>> > uninstall that package before trying to install our amd64 package.
>>
>> The Debian package is split into wsjtx, wsjtx-data, and wsjtx-doc.
>>
>> This specific version is the one included in Ubuntu focal.
>>
>> Christoph
>>
>
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