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kronaemmanuel

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Registered: 2020-12-30

Posts: 1

Unresolveable dependency on a package i'm trying to make

I want to install Spline on my system, but it is only available as a .deb package. So I thought of converting it to an arch package. Here's how i tried to do it:

1. I used debtap to convert it from .deb package to a .tar.zst package but I got a missing dependency "kde-runtime" which had no equivalent in arch packages
2. I tried to install the package anyways by doing

yay -U packagename.zst

3. I installed kdebase-runtime package and then ran the above command again but still the same error.
4. I also tried running

yay -U packagename.tar.zst --asdeps kdebase-runtime

but it says "could not find package kdebase-runtime"

Can anyone help me? This is the first package that I'm trying to make and I'm not very familiar with the process.

Last edited by kronaemmanuel (2020-12-30 07:26:28)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Unresolveable dependency on a package i'm trying to make

re-run debtap and when it reports the missing dependency choose one of the edit options and replace kde-runtime with kdebase-runtime .

One other thing :
Why are you using yay instead of pacman to install something you locally created ?

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a821

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Registered: 2012-10-31

Posts: 383

Re: Unresolveable dependency on a package i'm trying to make

I think writing a PKGBUILD is a much better solution. Below a very rough PKGBUILD as starting point. Some things to note:

• I am not sure about the license; looks like it is MIT but the copyrights holder is github(?).

• I couldn't find the sources... If they're available the pkgname must be spline-bin

• The dependencies were detected by namcap(1). There could be others.

• You may need to create a wrapper scrip which sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or equivalent solution) so the binary finds the bundled libraries

• Obviously I didn't check much and there are likely mistakes or improvements

pkgname=spline
pkgver=0.3.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="FILL ME"
url="https://spline.design"
license=("MIT")
arch=('x86_64')
depends=('gtk3' 'nss')
source=("https://cdn.spline.design/_assets/spline_${pkgver}_amd64.zip")
sha256sums=('cd93a7527355014f74199c32ddea8d6c5a9462826efb34b0461e833f16e9f5fa')

prepare() {
  bsdtar -xf "spline_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
}

package() {
  bsdtar -C "$pkgdir" -xf data.tar.xz
  mv "$pkgdir"/usr/share/{doc,licenses}
}

eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

Posts: 4,097

Re: Unresolveable dependency on a package i'm trying to make

I think writing a PKGBUILD is a much better solution. Below a very rough PKGBUILD as starting point. Some things to note:

• I am not sure about the license; looks like it is MIT but the copyrights holder is github(?).

The copyright covers the bundled copy of electron.

This is insufficient to convey the permissions for using spline itself.

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