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Title: BUG: .deb package fail
Post by: Mansoor on 7 July 2011, 21:07:56
Hi GAE team,

I tried installing GAE on my Ubuntu 11.04 using the .deb packages available on sourceforge. After starting the installation process in Ubuntu Software Center throws a warning saying that the package is corrupted in some way, but it gives the option to ignore this and continue installation. Even then the installer fails after less than a second. I tried this with two different packages. 0.3 and 0.32. 32 bit Linux.

maybe it is the new Ubuntu that is causing this issue, but i never tried it on any other version.
Title: Re: BUG: .deb package fail
Post by: hailstone on 10 July 2011, 03:47:48
I've tried installing glestae-0.3.2-Linux32.deb in a virtual machine with Ubuntu 11.04 32bit and it shows this:

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and so on for the rest of the files. Posting them all would exceed the 50000 character limit.

Installing anyway shows this error:
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Title: Re: BUG: .deb package fail
Post by: silnarm on 10 July 2011, 22:35:36
Those debs were prepared on an old version of Ubuntu, probably best to build from source (actually, on linux this is always best... but that's a different matter).

Title: Re: BUG: .deb package fail
Post by: Mansoor on 14 July 2011, 18:04:08
Are there plans to officially add GAE to the Ubuntu Software Center? it is one of the best things about Ubuntu which makes installed software very easy to get remove and manage safely. and the Ubuntu developers are serious about it. Recently they added paid apps which include the very popular games like Braid, and World of Goo. I also heard about plans to make a donate feature to allow people to pay for apps and support the development. that will all be probably released in LTS Ubuntu 11.10 which I think comes out in a few months.

maybe putting GAE will be a good idea as I found that Glest was the only app present not even MG was there.
Title: Re: BUG: .deb package fail
Post by: Omega on 15 July 2011, 05:05:25
Quote from: Mansoor on 14 July 2011, 18:04:08
Are there plans to officially add GAE to the Ubuntu Software Center? it is one of the best things about Ubuntu which makes installed software very easy to get remove and manage safely. and the Ubuntu developers are serious about it. Recently they added paid apps which include the very popular games like Braid, and World of Goo. I also heard about plans to make a donate feature to allow people to pay for apps and support the development. that will all be probably released in LTS Ubuntu 11.10 which I think comes out in a few months.

maybe putting GAE will be a good idea as I found that Glest was the only app present not even MG was there.
+1

Anything that eases distribution and can help make GAE more popular is worth of an extra point in my book.
Title: Re: BUG: .deb package fail
Post by: Yggdrasil on 15 July 2011, 23:12:14
There's already a bugreport for it as their aptdeamon crashes:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptdaemon/+bug/782039

Does installing on commandline with 'dpkg -i <debfile>' work? Otherwise as silnarm said building from source is always best. We are too few devs to maintain packages for all distributions out there.

Quote from: Mansoor on 14 July 2011, 18:04:08
Are there plans to officially add GAE to the Ubuntu Software Center?
No, there are no plans from our side. Maybe i'll do something similar to 0ad for the next release.
http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/LatestReleaseLinux
That way you'll get a third party repository for installing and updating.