On 03/06/12 15:08, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Why not download the standalone binaries in the tar file on that page and run them through ldd and find out what they really need.
Hmm, thanks for pointing out the obvious (well the install from binary option was obvious, even if ldd wasn't to me).
In any case, I downloaded the tarball and ran the install script in it, which wanted me to install the "lsb" package, which dragged in all those dependencies...
Looking at the script, all it needed was some helper scripts for copying scripts into the right directories and setting their permissions, and for installing an init.d script. Doing this manually without lsb was pretty trivial, although bearing in mind that I had already done the full install (then uninstall) on this system it may be that I'm missing something that was done by the original install, so I won't know for sure until I try again on a clean box.
If it's not issued by an apt repository there is hardly any point installing from the deb package anyway, and looking at those dependencies I am guessing it was packaged by a complete moron.
Looks (so far) like it was the install script not the packaging that was the issue. "lsb" is one hell of a dependency for some wrappers to "cp" and "chmod"....