On Oct 22, 2014, at 05:00 PM, Kelly Goedert wrote:

I am new to python. I created a simple python cli application that depends on jsonpickle and plumbum.

Using this command python setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb I was able to create a .deb package. But when I try to install the package with dpkg -i package_name I get

package_name depends on python-plumbum; however: Package python-plumbum is not installed. package_name depends on python-jsonpickle; however: Package python-jsonpickle

In my setup.py I have this:

dependencies=['plumbum','jsonpickle'] install_requires=dependencies

Is it possible to make the debian package install this python dependencies? Or is this the wrong approach? If so, what would be the recommend way?

`dpkg -i` doesn't install dependencies. After you get this, run `sudo apt-get install -f` to get your missing dependencies. Cheers, -Barry