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NN_Dave
Feb 24, 2014Aspirant
Issues installing packages as dependency of addon
Hi All, I'm developing an addon for ROS6 and have run into a really strange problem. My addon depends on PHP, Rsync, OpenVPN and Sudo. I've added all of these to the control file for the .deb bui...
WhoCares_
Mar 24, 2014Mentor
The problem seems to be that the check for installed packages sees you "half-installed" packages as being "fully installed" and thus doesn't try to re-install those again.
What you can do to fix this manually is to run "apt-get -f install" but that won't tell you whether the dependencies in the control file will now work. So my approach would be to manually remove the half-installed packages and then re-run the add-on installation to see what happens.
-Stefan
What you can do to fix this manually is to run "apt-get -f install" but that won't tell you whether the dependencies in the control file will now work. So my approach would be to manually remove the half-installed packages and then re-run the add-on installation to see what happens.
-Stefan
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