On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 01:57:25PM -0500, Michael E Brown scribbled
in "Re: Dell OpenManage 6.3 for Ubuntu":
> > Thanks Michael, and thanks Dell (official or not ;)
> >
> > Any chance of a similar set for real Debian?
>
> I really hope the ubuntu packages just work on Debian. If you care
> to try it and report back results, that would be great.
> Theoretically, native deb pkgs shouldnt be terribly difficult, now
> that we have the actual packaging done. It will have to be kind of a
> side project with no guarantees, though. I'll look into it.
First, sorry about not maintaining the headers, I did not subscribe so I had no
message to reply to.
I have tried installing the Ubuntu OMSA packages on Debian, and unfortunately
there are are som problems.
First I tried to install it on an ordinary Debian Lenny, but some dependency
versions are too high (libxml2 and libstdc++). It also depends on
libsmbios-utils, which is not available for Debian, as far as I can tell.
I then tried to install it on Debian testing (Squeeze). On that version, it was
only the libsmbios-utils package that stopped me from installing.
Does anyone know if and how I can get the libsmbios-utils package on Debian? Do
I need to download the Ubuntu deb and install it manually?
So it seems like some modification is needed to get the packages to work on
Debian. Does it really need those new versions of libstdc++ and libxml2, or is
that because it was built on an Ubuntu 10.04 machine? I can't imagine those
versions are available on RHEL (which I suppose the packages are converted
from). It would also be nice if it worked for older versions of Ubuntu.
I also had some problems with the meta packages, it seems like it does not
automatically install its dependencies, I had to manually list all packages.
This happened both on Debian and Ubuntu (9.04).
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apt-get install srvadmin-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
srvadmin-base: Depends: srvadmin-omacore but it is not going to be installed
Depends: srvadmin-storage but it is not going to be installed
Depends: srvadmin-storage-populator but it is not going to be
installed
E: Broken packages
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/Johan
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