[ubuntu-uk] Issues packaging software

[Gareth France]

My brain still hurts from figuring out everything I have done so far. 
I'd rather not have to start again if I can at all help it. As you say 
there will be a correct way to do this and I would hope that being 
pointed to that correct way I would be able to do so with the tools I am 
already using. I shall keep this message highlighted but I'd like to 
hold off looking at this sword thing for as long as possible, it sounds 
like it might just be the straw that broke the camel's back!

On 03/05/15 20:52, Barry Drake wrote:
> On 03/05/15 20:04, Gareth France wrote:
>> As most people are now well aware I'm desperate to be able to work out
>> GUI programming, but it does not seem to be my fate. There must be a
>> correct way to submit a commercial command line only program. It is
>> virtually useless if each user must be taught to use the full path each
>> time.
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> Gareth - I'm away from my main computer at the moment and don't have all
> the stuff with me.  This is the critical patch from the Sword library
> package.  I is a copy of Dmitri's original from an earlier Sword Debian
> package.  I do remember not being able to get it to work properly until
> I was told to use the chroot version of Debian.  I spent many frustrated
> hours trying.  There is no gui in the Sword engine - it's pure library
> binary stuff with the odd commanline program - and it was just fine.
> Your program does not need to be gui - it just needs to put stuff where
> Debian/Ubuntu allows it.  pbuilder under debootstrap is very strict, and
> gives a lot more error messages.
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