HOWTO: Easily modify dependencies of a .deb file

[vambo]

What a damned useful little script! Many Thanks.

[ricky06181993]

I am completely new to ubuntu and need to know what exactly i need to do to change the dependency in boxee from "libxmlrpc-c3" to "libxmlrpc-c3-0".

Thanks in advance for any help,
Ryan.

[derSoldat]

Registered just to say thanks! This script did exactly what I needed.

[emanhossny]

Hello All,
I'm new to linux & have the problem "dependency is not satisfiable libxmlrpc-c3"
So plz, tell me how can I solve it?

[princej88]

awesome script. Thanks!

[ccsalway]

Im getting:

$sudo: videbcontrol: command not found


Im running Ubuntu server 11.04

[archman]

Im getting:

$sudo: videbcontrol: command not found


Im running Ubuntu server 11.04

Your script is not in PATH, but you don't have to add it. Just cd to the location containing that script and issue "./scriptname ...".

[mrgoodknife]

I've got some questions, because I'm a straight up n00b and downloaded Ubuntu only because it was the best of the "free" options since my copy of windows apparently lost its legitimacy when I did a clean install. I'm trying to turn this computer into a media center, so if someone could basically explain this to me step-by-step, I would greatly appreciate it.

[helpdeskdan]

Thanks! I was leary - 4 year old scripts rarely work, but this did exactly what I needed to get boxee to ignore my libvdpau1 problem. Only one slight modification on line 31 - vim is better than vi.

As for mrgoodknife, it is frowned upon to post unrelated questions in forums. Start a new thread to ask your question. Better yet, ask Google, who knows all.

[japzone]

Found this script and it's well made. My only gripe is that I hate vi, just isn't intuitive for me. So I just made a quick modification. It will now open with gedit instead and wait for you to save and hit enter before continuing.

(Note: If you have problems opening the script try "bash debcontrol" in the directory of the script. Should execute the script even if it's not +x tagged)

#!/bin/bash
#modded by japzone

if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then
  echo "Syntax: $0 debfile"
  exit 1
fi

DEBFILE="$1"
TMPDIR=`mktemp -d /tmp/deb.XXXXXXXXXX` || exit 1
OUTPUT=`basename "$DEBFILE" .deb`.modfied.deb

if [[ -e "$OUTPUT" ]]; then
  echo "$OUTPUT exists."
  rm -r "$TMPDIR"
  exit 1
fi

dpkg-deb -x "$DEBFILE" "$TMPDIR"
dpkg-deb --control "$DEBFILE" "$TMPDIR"/DEBIAN

if [[ ! -e "$TMPDIR"/DEBIAN/control ]]; then
  echo DEBIAN/control not found.

  rm -r "$TMPDIR"
  exit 1
fi

CONTROL="$TMPDIR"/DEBIAN/control

MOD=`stat -c "%y" "$CONTROL"`
gedit "$CONTROL"
read -p "Press any key once you've finished editing and saved"

if [[ "$MOD" == `stat -c "%y" "$CONTROL"` ]]; then
  echo Not modfied.
else
  echo Building new deb...
  dpkg -b "$TMPDIR" "$OUTPUT"
fi

rm -r "$TMPDIR"