Dependency problem with makepkg command [solved]

akhilpm135 · 2011-08-13 20:09:44

My driver for wireless is BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY(dell inspirion 1440 and i had wicd installed in my laptop). I tried to make a package by downloading the corresponding tarball from AUR.I installed all the packages for building a custom package (like base-devel,abs etc) , extracted the tarball to my build directory & tried to compile with "makepkg" and i got the error

[akhi@myhost build]$ makepkg
==> Making package: broadcom-wl 5.100.82.38-6 (Sat Aug 13 17:31:29 IST 2011)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Missing Dependencies:
-> linux
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Missing Dependencies:
-> linux-headers
==> ERROR: Could not resolve all dependencies.

i installed linux-headers with pacman to solve the dependancy problem(pacman -S kernel26-headers),and compiled again but still had the same problem(my kernel version is 2.6.39-ARCH).

any helps please....thanks in advance

Last edited by akhilpm135 (2011-08-14 11:58:00)

karol · 2011-08-13 20:13:42

The missing packages, linux-headers, are for the new kernel: linux 3.0.
'pacman -S kernel26-headers' installs kernel26-headers not linux-headers :-)

You should update your system first, then build the package.

Last edited by karol (2011-08-13 20:15:01)

loafer · 2011-08-13 20:17:29

When installing anything from the AUR you should check the PKGBUILD to make sure it is ok. This PKGBUILD clearly states the dependencies.

akhilpm135 · 2011-08-13 20:25:20

@loafer : i got the dependencies from this error message.. but what i want is how to resolve the dependancy problem ..

akhilpm135 · 2011-08-13 20:28:03

whether i need to migrate to kernel 3.0 ? ..And how can i migrate to kernel 3.0?

karol · 2011-08-13 20:30:22

akhilpm135 wrote:

And how can i migrate to kernel 3.0?

Just run 'pacman -Syu'. If you have an outdated mirrorlist, pick a fresh one http://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/

loafer · 2011-08-13 20:41:15

akhilpm135 wrote:

@loafer : i got the dependencies from this error message.. but what i want is how to resolve the dependancy problem ..

What I meant was if you have kernel26-headers and Kernel 2.6.39 installed and the PKGBUILD says you need linux and linux-headers that should be enough infomation to trouble shoot the problem.

akhilpm135 · 2011-08-14 11:50:59

it worked...thanks everyone.....and special thanks to you karol.........i asked such a stupid question since i don't know nothing about kernel 3.0 and this is the first time i am building a package....sorry.....

Last edited by akhilpm135 (2011-08-14 11:51:19)

karol · 2011-08-14 11:55:56

No problem :-)

Please mark the topic as solved by editing the first post and adding '[solved]' to the title.
(you may want to correct a typo too: it's 'dependency' not 'dependancy')

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Dependency problem with makepkg command [solved]

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Re: Dependency problem with makepkg command [solved]

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Re: Dependency problem with makepkg command [solved]

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Re: Dependency problem with makepkg command [solved]

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Re: Dependency problem with makepkg command [solved]

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Re: Dependency problem with makepkg command [solved]

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Re: Dependency problem with makepkg command [solved]

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Re: Dependency problem with makepkg command [solved]

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Re: Dependency problem with makepkg command [solved]

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