[tei-council] TEI distro again

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 18 Feb 2011, at 18:47, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>> When I open tei_p5_all with my 64-bit Ubuntu package manager, I get
>>> "Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: tei-p5-source".
>> 
>> which package did you open? there is no "tei_p5_all" _per se_.
> 
> 	tei-p5-database_1.9.0_all.deb

good, thats correct, it cant work unless source is installed

> Good lord. I guess there should be some instructions, then. I've never 
> "installed" TEI before -- I just use the online Roma -- so I just 
> assumed a package with "all" in it would give me everything. It would be 
> good to include some instructions, then, or a script to run install them 
> in the right order. Perhaps that's included in the zip file, which is 
> still downloading for me.

in the real world, you'd not do this. You would add the repository to your
/etc/apt/sources.list and do eg
 apt-get install tei-p5-database
and everything would be taken care of you for you.

Sorry, I should have made it clear that this is for dirty-fingered testing,
not real life.


the "_all" means "it works on all architectures"

> 
> But I'm still puzzled by the use of "i386" -- how does that relate to 
> dependencies? Usually it means a 32-bit package that won't necessarily 
> work on 64-bit.
> 
indeed, and I need to fix that, as the packages are all architecture
agnostic, since they have no binaries

so just your immediate reaction is a good test, thanks!

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