DojwqIO | # 1 | 2010-01-18, 19:44 | Report

Hello,
I compiled Octave and gnuplot on the SDK according to the instructions on the wiki http://wiki.maemo.org/How_to_Install_Octave.
I changed the configure options to install everything to /opt.
Then I created a tar.gz file and moved it to the N900, unpacked it (to /opt) and both gnuplot and octave work fine.
I only had to add the paths to /home/user/.profile and create a couple of symlinks for the gnuplot executables. I also had to install "less" from fremantle/tools to access the help files. (Help does not work too well , because it also seems to need "makeinfo".)

Anyway, now how do I go about creating .deb packages?

Some screenshots below:

lardman | # 2 | 2010-01-18, 20:51 | Report

Ah, I just uploaded Octave to extras-devel actually.

Not sure if it will work (I've manually optified by targetting /opt/octave/ as the installation dir, then symlinked the binaries and libs back to /usr/*/

lardman | # 3 | 2010-01-19, 08:51 | Report

Well I tried to upload it, but forgot it has a dep on blas (which I'd yet to upload) and that has just failed in the x86 build. Feel free to take a look, otherwise I'll see what's wrong with it this evening. Links here:

https://garage.maemo.org/builder/fremantle/blas_1.2-2/
https://garage.maemo.org/builder/fre..._3.2.3-maemo0/

vitaly_repin | # 4 | 2010-01-19, 08:54 | Report

Gnuplot is already there: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=480875

Eager to see octave there.

DojwqIO | # 5 | 2010-01-20, 03:33 | Report

That sounds great, thanks.

Where should I start in order to learn how to create .deb packages from source code? I couldn't find any step-by-step guides in the wiki. All I found were references to the Ubuntu Packaging Guide.

I'm also interested in porting aspell (http://aspell.net/) to use as my spell-checker for vim.

lardman | # 6 | 2010-01-20, 17:06 | Report

Best bet is to download the debian package (i.e. .tar.gz + .dsc + .diff.gz) which contains the debian directory, then patch as appropriate and try to build with "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot"

fatalsaint | # 7 | 2010-01-20, 17:51 | Report

If you don't have a normal ./configure, make && make install source then you can do it by hand by creating the structure yourself.

There is a very detailed guide here that will walk step by very long step on package creation from source. Including how to check for dependencies and such with a autoconf-like source.

DojwqIO | # 8 | 2010-01-20, 17:59 | Report

That's the thing. I thought the debian packages had to be compiled for the target architecture from the source tarball.

Looking for the stable debian package for aspell, I found the .tar.gz, .dsc, and diff.gz.
files you mentioned here: http://packages.debian.org/source/stable/aspell .

Will running "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot" build a .deb file that will install on the N900. How do I make sure that the files get installed to /opt ?

Forgive my ignorance, but what do you mean by "patch
as appropriate"? Can you point me to some documentation that explains all the steps to build the package?

Thanks,

fatalsaint | # 9 | 2010-01-20, 19:09 | Report

No. The debian package is a debian package.. you can grab an i386 debian package and install it. The program won't run - because the binary (not the debian package itself, the actual program executable) was compiled for x86. So to combat this, inside a control file in the debian file it specifies the architecture - and then dpkg will fail out telling you that that package was designed for i386.. not armel. All ".deb" is, is a zip file (more or less) with some failsafes built-in.

Yes.. because dpkg-buildpackage goes through dozens of steps, described in the links I showed above, which include compiling the software for whatever architecture you are running it on. (That is why this must be done with either MADDE or scratchbox).

I did that.. right above you. Full documentation that explains everything.

stanman | # 10 | 2010-04-10, 20:09 | Report

Hi, I just thought I'd let you know how I got aspell installed and
working in my N900. I got aspell_0.60.6-1_armel.deb from
http://danielsz.freeshell.org/code/mine/emacs-for-maemo and did

dpkg -i aspell_0.60.6-1_armel.deb

Then, to install the dictionaries I needed, I copied over all the
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/en* files from a Fedora-12 installation to
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/. on the phone.

That's it, easy. And now flyspell works in emacs too, which is great!