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#1 2018-05-11 21:49:51

jbr100uk
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Registered: 2018-05-11
Posts: 2

How do I determine the Archlinux equivalents of some Debian packages?

Hello everyone.

I'm trying to compile a package to add to the Arch User Repository called Daisyplayer which was written using Debian.  The source code for this package is available at http://www.jlemmens.nl/homepage/daisy-p … 4.2.tar.gz and the PGP signature for this source code is available at http://www.jlemmens.nl/homepage/daisy-p … tar.gz.asc

This program is particularly useful for blind and visually impaired Linux users like myself, as it allows us to read Daisy audio books which are very popular among visually impaired people on our computers.

The author of this software tells me you compile it by doing the following:

./configure
make
sudo make install

The author also tells me that, before the above code will work, certain dependencies need to be installed.  The dependencies he needs to enable DaisyPlayer to run on his Debian system are as follows:

   libncursesw5
   libsox2
   libsox-fmt-pulse
   libxml2
   libmagic1
   libmad0
   gettext
   udisks2
   language-pack-af
   language-pack-cs
   language-pack-de
   language-pack-es
   language-pack-fi
   language-pack-fr
   language-pack-hu
   language-pack-ml
   language-pack-nb
   language-pack-nl
   language-pack-pl
   language-pack-pt
   language-pack-sl
   language-pack-sv
   libcdio-cdda1
   libcdio-paranoia1
   libcddb-get-perl
   tex-common
   unar
   txt2man
   man2html

To compile DaisyPlayer on his Debian system, the author needs the following extra packages:

   libncursesw5-dev
   libsox-dev
   libxml2-dev
   libcdio-dev
   libcdio-cdda-dev
   libcdio-paranoia-dev
   libmagic-dev

I realise that, before I can compile daisyPlayer on Archlinux, I need to install the Archlinux equivalents of all the Debian packages listed above.  I guessed most of these, but couldn't guess them all.

When I tried to compile DaisyPlayer, the './configure' phase appeared to work fine.  The 'make' phase failed soon after it began.  There was no error, but the 'make' command simply hung and the only way out of this was to press CTRL+C.

The final few lines of output produced by the 'make' command were as follows:

make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/john/Builds/daisy-player-11.4.2'
Making all in man
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/john/Builds/daisy-player-11.4.2/man'
./daisy-player.1: troff or preprocessor input, ASCII text, with very long lines

I presume I didn't have all the necessary dependencies installed before trying to compile DaisyPlayer.  My question therefore is as folows:

How do I determine the Archlinux equivalents of all the Debian packages the author tells me I need to compile DaisyPlayer?

I've searched the forums extensively but haven't been able to find an answer to this question anywhere.

Many thanks in advance for any help.

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#2 2018-05-11 22:05:42

twelveeighty
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From: Alberta, Canada
Registered: 2011-09-04
Posts: 1,096

Re: How do I determine the Archlinux equivalents of some Debian packages?

Which dependencies do you think you're missing? I count at least:

ncurses (which is at 6 in Arch, not 5, that may be a big problem)
libsoxr
libxml2
libcdio
libcdio-paranoia
libmagick (7) or libmagick6, check in the Debian package listing which version they use.

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#3 2018-05-11 22:27:45

Slithery
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From: Norfolk, UK
Registered: 2013-12-01
Posts: 5,776

Re: How do I determine the Archlinux equivalents of some Debian packages?

You can get ncurses v5 from...
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ncurses5-compat-libs

Which other packages do you think you are missing? Do you have base-devel installed?

No, it didn't "fix" anything. It just shifted the brokeness one space to the right. - jasonwryan
Closing -- for deletion; Banning -- for muppetry. - jasonwryan

aur - dotfiles

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#4 2018-05-11 22:30:01

ooo
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Registered: 2013-04-10
Posts: 1,638

Re: How do I determine the Archlinux equivalents of some Debian packages?

This could be helpful: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/debtap

The build failure doesn't seem related to missing dependencies though. And usually ./configure checks for build requirements, and fail if they aren't met.

Did you check with e.g. top if some process is still running while the build hangs?

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#5 2018-05-11 22:42:24

loqs
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Registered: 2014-03-06
Posts: 17,372

Re: How do I determine the Archlinux equivalents of some Debian packages?

# This is an example PKGBUILD file. Use this as a start to creating your own,
# and remove these comments. For more information, see 'man PKGBUILD'.
# NOTE: Please fill out the license field for your package! If it is unknown,
# then please put 'unknown'.

# Maintainer: Your Name <youremail@domain.com>
pkgname=daisy-player
pkgver=11.4.2
pkgrel=1
epoch=
pkgdesc=""
arch=('x86_64')
url=""
license=('GPL')
groups=()
depends=('libmad' 'sox' 'libcdio-paranoia' 'libid3tag' 'libxml2')
makedepends=('txt2man')
checkdepends=()
optdepends=()
provides=()
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
options=()
install=
changelog=
source=(http://www.jlemmens.nl/homepage/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz{,.asc}
        daisy.patch)
validpgpkeys=('8C1857BC94AAB3A39F6E4043629AB62E8E2D419A')
noextract=()

prepare() {
	cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
	patch -p1 -i "$srcdir/daisy.patch"
}

build() {
	cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
	./configure --prefix=/usr
	make
}

check() {
	cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
	make -k check
}

package() {
	cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
	make DESTDIR="$pkgdir/" install
}
sha256sums=('6f661dbc6b5080c07052ff2d2a7061a7dd093a2bcde820be2d1b80b268a1e41c'
            'SKIP'
            '846c6435f051d9bc0e3f15aab51328ef360f18a85813f3048859b6b3e2a54884')
diff --git a/src/daisy.h b/src/daisy.h
index 296f82c..889a0da 100644
--- a/src/daisy.h
+++ b/src/daisy.h
@@ -16,6 +16,18 @@
  * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
  */
 
+#undef PACKAGE
+#undef PACKAGE_BUGREPORT
+#undef PACKAGE_NAME
+#undef PACKAGE_STRING
+#undef PACKAGE_TARNAME
+#undef PACKAGE_URL
+#undef PACKAGE_VERSION
+#undef VERSION
+#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
+   #include "config.h"
+#endif
+
 #define _GNU_SOURCE
 
 #include <string.h>
@@ -29,7 +41,7 @@
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/wait.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
-#include <ncursesw/curses.h>
+#include <curses.h>
 #include <fcntl.h>
 #include <dirent.h>
 #include <pwd.h>
@@ -55,17 +67,6 @@
 #include <fnmatch.h>
 #include <sys/select.h>
 
-#undef PACKAGE
-#undef PACKAGE_BUGREPORT
-#undef PACKAGE_NAME
-#undef PACKAGE_STRING
-#undef PACKAGE_TARNAME
-#undef PACKAGE_URL
-#undef PACKAGE_VERSION
-#undef VERSION
-#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
-   #include "config.h"
-#endif
 
 #define MAX_CMD 512
 #define MAX_STR 256

Edit:
builds in a clean chroot now

Last edited by loqs (2018-05-12 00:13:22)

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#6 2018-05-13 20:21:58

jbr100uk
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Registered: 2018-05-11
Posts: 2

Re: How do I determine the Archlinux equivalents of some Debian packages?

Hi Slithery and many thanks for your helpful suggestions about the Ncurses version 5 compatibility library and how this may be useful because Debian uses Ncurses version 5 and not version six.  I wasn't aware of this and I'll try it and see if I get any further.  I'll post in this thread again if I have any more problems I think this forum may be able to help with.  Thanks again.

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#7 2018-05-13 20:24:09

loqs
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Registered: 2014-03-06
Posts: 17,372

Re: How do I determine the Archlinux equivalents of some Debian packages?

@jbr100uk did you not try the PKGBUILD and patch I created to see if they worked for you?

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