Debtap - A script to convert .deb packages to Arch Linux packages

torleif · 2015-06-28 17:40:17

Ok. Thanks!
I thought Manjaro was fully Arch compatible
So no way to use Debtap in manjaro?

helix · 2015-06-28 17:42:30

Until they fix their pkgfile issue, I'm afraid not

torleif · 2015-06-28 17:44:16

helix wrote:

Until they fix their pkgfile issue, I'm afraid not

Ok. Thanks anyway

tchelovek · 2015-08-11 17:04:33

Hi Helix,

I just gave debtap a quick try, alas to no avail :-(

I end up with :

# debtap -u

==> Synchronizing pkgfile database...
:: Updating 5 repos...
aur is up to date
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
alarm is up to date

==> Synchronizing debtap database...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
gzip: /var/cache/debtap/debian-packages-files.gz: unexpected end of file
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
gzip: /var/cache/debtap/ubuntu-packages-files.gz: unexpected end of file
Synchronization failed. Exiting...

What am I missing ?

tchelovek

P.S. I'm running on Arch Linux Arm (armv6h)

helix · 2015-08-11 17:21:46

1. Synchronization works perfectly fine here. Maybe Debian/Ubuntu servers had been temporarily down at the moment you run "debtap -u" and that's why you got the error message. My advice: simply retry
2. ARM architecture is not supported at the moment by debtap, and also it is a seperate distribution

tchelovek · 2015-08-12 07:40:38

Well, Helix,

I ventured into the script, and found the main problem to be the architecture issue, after fixing that, by adding

elif [[ "$(uname -m)" == "armv6l" ]]; then
_arch=armhf

( see https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi for reference )

to the architecture check, it still failed due to the ubuntu repo. I just commented the respective lines out for now, ubuntu seems to have changed their page layout at http://packages.ubuntu.com/ , there is no keyword "option" on that page. You may want to check out what has changed.

tchelovek

helix · 2015-08-12 13:37:13

Feel free to make any suggestions in my github page, as this is not the proper place to discuss about Arch Linux ARM issues

helix · 2015-08-29 23:33:40

Update 2.2

Changelog:

* Updated virtual packages list
* Fixed typo

helix · 2015-09-12 12:55:13

Update 2.3.2

Changelog:

* Improved untranslated optional dependencies report.
* Now both scripts show the message "Creation of .PKGINFO file in progress. This may take a few minutes, please wait...". I added this message, because a few people thought that after the license question debtap(-p64) stopped working or it was stuck.
* Minor improvements.

Last edited by helix (2015-09-13 10:45:27)

helix · 2015-09-29 14:38:18

Update 2.4.1

Changelog:

* Compression of final package is now multi-threaded, making compression much faster
* Code cleaning/minor improvements

masoko · 2015-10-05 14:14:45

Hello there, I'm having problems converting a .deb file, http://www.cnc.una.py/sl/sle_2.0-4_i386.deb , it's a spanish program to learn how to make basic programs, it doesn't seem to be updated since 2004 so I'm guessing it has a lot of old dependencies.
Thanks for your time.

helix · 2015-10-05 14:45:08

If it's really that old it won't probably install and run even on modern Debian/Ubuntu based distributions, unless it depends on static libraries.

Update: I managed to install it and run it following these steps:

1. Remove the line "depend = xlibs>4.1.0" from .PKGINFO when debtap asks you if you want to edit the file with your prefered editor. Save file.
2. Install the generated package.
3. Run program with this command: /usr/sle2/bin/sle2

Last edited by helix (2015-10-05 15:20:33)

masoko · 2015-10-05 23:38:10

helix wrote:

If it's really that old it won't probably install and run even on modern Debian/Ubuntu based distributions, unless it depends on static libraries.
Update: I managed to install it and run it following these steps:
1. Remove the line "depend = xlibs>4.1.0" from .PKGINFO when debtap asks you if you want to edit the file with your prefered editor. Save file.
2. Install the generated package.
3. Run program with this command: /usr/sle2/bin/sle2

I'm having these dependencies problem, also I'm using a x64 Arch System:

advertencia: no se pudo resolver «glib>=1.2.0», una dependencia de «sle»
advertencia: no se pudo resolver «gtk>=1.2.10», una dependencia de «sle»

helix · 2015-10-05 23:51:05

1. Use deptap-p64 instead of debtap to convert this package into a pseudo-64-bit package for Arch Linux
2. Install the missing dependencies from AUR, manually or using an AUR helper (personally I use apacman which also provides AUR dependencies handling when installing local packages)

masoko · 2015-10-06 00:03:19

helix wrote:

1. Use deptap-p64 instead of debtap to convert this package into a pseudo-64-bit package for Arch Linux
2. Install the missing dependencies from AUR, manually or using an AUR helper (personally I use apacman which also provides AUR dependencies handling when installing local packages)

I'm almost there, I have installed the dependencies from AUR but now I have this issue:

/usr/sle2/bin/sle2: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

helix · 2015-10-06 00:10:24

You need lib32-gtk installed from old AUR, because it has not been reuploaded

masoko · 2015-10-06 01:56:25

helix wrote:

You need lib32-gtk installed from old AUR, because it has not been reuploaded

Sorry, but where can I get the old AUR package?

helix · 2015-10-06 06:28:09

git clone --depth=1 git://pkgbuild.com/aur-mirror.git

masoko · 2015-10-07 23:57:43

helix wrote:

git clone --depth=1 git://pkgbuild.com/aur-mirror.git

You are a genius, now it's working, how can I donate something to you? MANY THANX!

helix · 2015-10-08 00:15:35

You are very welcome!

helix · 2015-10-10 16:10:31

Minor update 2.4.3

Changelog:

* Added xlibs to ready translated packages names
* Code cleaning/minor improvements

helix · 2015-11-15 22:36:02

Update 2.5

Changelog

* Forces right permissions for cache directory /var/cache/debtap and its contents for people who experienced issues using debtap(-p64) as normal users, after updating debtap(-p64) database using sudo
* read does not interpret backslash anymore during the creation of .INSTALL metadata file

Last edited by helix (2015-11-15 22:58:51)

LyTchet · 2015-11-19 20:43:46

Hi,

I had to look deep into debtap code to see how Debian concepts match with Arch ones. :-)

(& how to generate packages whitout makepkg getting in the way)

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p1579732

Great work ! :-)

Last edited by LyTchet (2015-11-19 20:43:58)

helix · 2015-11-19 20:46:48

Thanks man

kevdog · 2015-11-26 20:13:46

I'm running into a memory error using debtap:

==> Creating final package...
xz: wickr-2.3.5-1-i686.pkg.tar: Cannot allocate memory
mv: cannot stat ‘*.xz’: No such file or directory

However this is the memory I have:

$ free -h
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           3.5G        521M        1.4G         10M        1.5G        2.9G
Swap:          3.5G          0B        3.5G

Any suggestions?

Arch Linux

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