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Re: Love 2d and debian 10

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On 13/08/2019 16:02, Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> On 8/13/19, Nektarios Katakis <nektarios@mail.nektarioskatakis.xyz> wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 11:33:17 +0100
>> Paul Sutton <zleap@disroot.org> wrote:
>>> On 13/08/2019 11:16, Nektarios Katakis wrote:
>>>> From what I see the love2d software provides 2 packages for linux.
>>>> One specific to Ubuntu distro and one with AppImage. You re not
>>>> mentioning which one you used to be able to reproduce.
>>> I am installing with
>>>
>>> apt install love (as root of course)
>>>
>>> How do I perhaps query dpkg to see what exactly it has installed etc?
>> You can check that with `apt list --installed | grep <package-name>'.
>> Can you please show the output of `apt-cache policy love`?
>> love package is not in the mainline apt repositories (I cannot find it).
> Hi Cindy

:~$ apt-cache policy love
love:
  Installed: 11.1-2
  Candidate: 11.1-2
  Version table:
 *** 11.1-2 500
        500 http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/debian buster/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Package described by apt search love is

love/stable,now 11.1-2 amd64 [installed]
  2D game development framework based on Lua and OpenGL

Paul
> Hi.. I was able to find it in Buster while lurking along just now:
>
> pool/main/l/love/love_11.1-2_amd64.deb
>
> Dpkg suggested dpkg-deb. I played a few seconds with the resulting
> observations being..
>
> * Sometimes you might need the whole page name including the version
> and dotDEB instead of only the name without those very specific
> identifiers.
>
> * Sometimes the package must at least be downloaded locally but not
> necessarily installed.
>
> "apt-file list" was able to show what "love" offers even though love
> is nowhere near my own setup. Apt-file worked great when called upon
> from any ol' directory, too.
>
> Apt-file did NOT like being offered a full path regardless of that
> path being any of these:
>
> /var/cache/apt/archives/rurple-ng
> /var/cache/apt/archives/rurple-ng*
> /var/cache/apt/archives/rurple-ng_0.5+16-2_all.deb
>
> A possible "why" is maybe the full path is internally addended to how
> "apt-file" is intelligent enough to already know that /var/cache path
> without us having to type it out in full. That would explain apt-file
> working with only a package name offered from anywhere within our file
> hierarchy. As such, apt-file might be reading those 3 full paths
> redundantly as:
>
> /var/cache/apt/archives/var/cache/apt/archives/rurple-ng*
>
> For dpkg-deb, these worked:
>
> dpkg-deb --contents /var/cache/apt/archives/rurple-ng*
> dpkg-deb --contents /var/cache/apt/archives/rurple-ng_0.5+16-2_all.deb
>
> Because the immediately above worked, this next one understandably did
> not and instead presented as "No such file or directory":
>
> dpkg-deb --contents /var/cache/apt/archives/rurple-ng
>
> The following only worked from within /var/cache/apt/archives AND also
> from within a duplicate, generic backup's directory:
>
> dpkg-deb --contents rurple-ng*
>
> In other words, dpkg-deb seems to poke around similar to how "ls" does.
>
> Those were *my* experiences, anyway. Totally worthwhile few minutes
> spent because the comparisons are a peek into package
> programming/development options/style variances, too.
>
> An observation overall is.. don't forget that any kind of change
> within dependencies could be the root of what's going on, too. The
> mere thought of that just made my head spin. PySolFC just experienced
> that a few weeks ago, broke completely, after one or more of its
> Python dependencies were upgraded. Cue the *crickets* stinger.. :)
>
> Cindy :)

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Love 2d and debian 10 Paul Sutton <zleap@disroot.org> - 2019-08-13 10:00 +0200
  Re: Love 2d and debian 10 Nektarios Katakis <nektarios@mail.nektarioskatakis.xyz> - 2019-08-13 12:20 +0200
    Re: Love 2d and debian 10 Paul Sutton <zleap@disroot.org> - 2019-08-13 12:40 +0200
      Re: Love 2d and debian 10 Nektarios Katakis <nektarios@mail.nektarioskatakis.xyz> - 2019-08-13 12:50 +0200
        Re: Love 2d and debian 10 Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2019-08-13 17:10 +0200
          Re: Love 2d and debian 10 Paul Sutton <zleap@disroot.org> - 2019-08-13 17:30 +0200
      Re: Love 2d and debian 10 Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-08-13 15:40 +0200

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