[Distutils] Dependency problems.

Ernesto Posse eposse at gmail.com
Mon Aug 22 21:03:50 CEST 2011


On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Maurits van Rees
<m.van.rees at zestsoftware.nl> wrote:
> Hello Mac,
>
> Op 19-08-11 15:43, Mac Ryan schreef:
>>
>>        Also, another question out of scientific curiosity. On a
>> debian-based distro, if a python module is installed via PyPI, will it
>> be "seen" and handled by apt-get / synaptic as if it were installed
>> from a .deb package? In other words: would a user be able to execute
>> `apt-get remove xxxx` if xxxx has been installed with python
>> easy_install xxxx`?
>
> No, sorry, that won't work.  The two are completely separate.
>

If you are interested in packaging for debian, lookup "stdeb" on PyPI.
It will allow you to generate .deb packages which can be installed and
handled by apt-get/synaptic.


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Ernesto Posse

Modelling and Analysis in Software Engineering
School of Computing
Queen's University - Kingston, Ontario, Canada


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