I tried to install Sile using the official Debian CreatePackageFromPPA guide but have yet to succeed.
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Install Debian SDK
$ sudo apt install devscripts build-essential
- Find link to changes file, then download
$ dget --extract --allow-unauthenticated https://launchpad.net/~sile-typesetter/+archive/ubuntu/sile/+files/sile_0.14.10-1ppa1~ubuntu22.10_source.changes
dget: retrieving https://launchpad.net/~sile-typesetter/+archive/ubuntu/sile/+files/sile_0.14.10-1ppa1~ubuntu22.10_source.changes
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0
100 1594 100 1594 0 0 625 0 0:00:02 0:00:02 --:--:-- 2033
dget: retrieving https://launchpad.net/~sile-typesetter/+archive/ubuntu/sile/+files/sile_0.14.10-1ppa1~ubuntu22.10.dsc
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0
100 2169 100 2169 0 0 759 0 0:00:02 0:00:02 --:--:-- 4252
dget: retrieving https://launchpad.net/~sile-typesetter/+archive/ubuntu/sile/+files/sile_0.14.10.orig.tar.xz
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0
100 2776k 100 2776k 0 0 706k 0 0:00:03 0:00:03 --:--:-- 1096k
dget: retrieving https://launchpad.net/~sile-typesetter/+archive/ubuntu/sile/+files/sile_0.14.10-1ppa1~ubuntu22.10.debian.tar.xz
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0
100 5892 100 5892 0 0 2312 0 0:00:02 0:00:02 --:--:-- 4849
dget: retrieving https://launchpad.net/~sile-typesetter/+archive/ubuntu/sile/+files/sile_0.14.10-1ppa1~ubuntu22.10_source.buildinfo
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
dget: curl sile_0.14.10-1ppa1~ubuntu22.10_source.buildinfo https://launchpad.net/~sile-typesetter/+archive/ubuntu/sile/+files/sile_0.14.10-1ppa1~ubuntu22.10_source.buildinfo failed
dpkg-source: info: extracting sile in sile-0.14.10
dpkg-source: info: unpacking sile_0.14.10.orig.tar.xz
dpkg-source: info: unpacking sile_0.14.10-1ppa1~ubuntu22.10.debian.tar.xz
- Build
$ cd sile-0.14.10/
sudo mk-build-deps --install --remove
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package sile-build-deps
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 0.14.10-1ppa1~ubuntu22.10
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution unstable
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Equivs Dummy Package Generator <root@pc>
dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
dpkg-source --before-build .
debian/rules clean
dh clean
dh_clean
debian/rules binary
dh binary
dh_update_autotools_config
dh_autoreconf
create-stamp debian/debhelper-build-stamp
dh_prep
dh_install
dh_installdocs
dh_installchangelogs
dh_perl
dh_link
dh_strip_nondeterminism
dh_compress
dh_fixperms
dh_missing
dh_installdeb
dh_gencontrol
dh_md5sums
dh_builddeb
dpkg-deb: building package 'sile-build-deps' in '../sile-build-deps_0.14.10-1ppa1~ubuntu22.10_all.deb'.
dpkg-genbuildinfo --build=binary
dpkg-genchanges --build=binary >../sile-build-deps_0.14.10-1ppa1~ubuntu22.10_amd64.changes
dpkg-genchanges: info: binary-only upload (no source code included)
dpkg-source --after-build .
dpkg-buildpackage: info: binary-only upload (no source included)
The package has been created.
Attention, the package has been created in the current directory,
not in ".." as indicated by the message above!
Selecting previously unselected package sile-build-deps.
Preparing to unpack sile-build-deps_0.14.10-1ppa1~ubuntu22.10_all.deb ...
Unpacking sile-build-deps (0.14.10-1ppa1~ubuntu22.10) ...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies...Starting pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 1
Starting 2 pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 1
Investigating (0) sile-build-deps:amd64 < 0.14.10-1ppa1~ubuntu22.10 @iU mK Nb Ib >
Broken sile-build-deps:amd64 Depends on lua-cassowary:amd64 < none @un H >
Removing sile-build-deps:amd64 because I can't find lua-cassowary:amd64
Done
Done
Starting pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 0
Starting 2 pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 0
Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
sile-build-deps
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 9,216 B disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
mk-build-deps: Unable to install sile-build-deps at /usr/bin/mk-build-deps line 457.
mk-build-deps: Unable to install all build-dep packages
- Install
$ dpkg-buildpackage --build=binary --no-sign
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package sile
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 0.14.10-1ppa1~ubuntu22.10
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution kinetic
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Caleb Maclennan <[email protected]>
dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
dpkg-source --before-build .
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: Unmet build dependencies: lua-cassowary lua-cldr lua-cliargs lua-compat53 lua-cosmo lua-epnf lua-fluent lua-linenoise lua-loadkit lua-penlight (>= 1.6.0) lua-repl lua-utf8 lua-vstruct lua-zlib-dev
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: (Use -d flag to override.)
As seen from above the install fails. Unlike pogo in the example, Sile has a bunch of other packages in its repository that match the names of the dependencies so they are probably a prerequisite. However the guide didn't cover this scenario so I am stuck. Do I need to manually install every single missing dependency using this method? If there are better solutions that require less manual work I am fully open to those.
