Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

On 1 May 2014 17:21, Gareth France wrote: > How do I know what standards version to put? The latest is 3.9.5, see the bottom of https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ It is used to track which version of Debian's packaging policy was used when a package was created/modified. Regards, Matthew

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On 01/05/14 17:12, Matthew Wild wrote: On 1 May 2014 16:31, Gareth France wrote: My second attempt to submit to the Software Centre has resulted in this extremely unhelpful feedback: This package will not build till the following sections are corrected: Now running lintian... lintian is a t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

On 01/05/14 17:09, Dave Morley wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 16:31 +0100, Gareth France wrote: My second attempt to submit to the Software Centre has resulted in this extremely unhelpful feedback: This package will not build till the following sections are corrected: Now running lintian... W: c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

On 1 May 2014 16:31, Gareth France wrote: > My second attempt to submit to the Software Centre has resulted in this > extremely unhelpful feedback: > > This package will not build till the following sections are corrected: > > > Now running lintian... lintian is a tool to check packages for vario

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On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 16:31 +0100, Gareth France wrote: > My second attempt to submit to the Software Centre has resulted in this > extremely unhelpful feedback: > > This package will not build till the following sections are corrected: > > Now running lintian... > W: cliftontestsuite source: no

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

My second attempt to submit to the Software Centre has resulted in this extremely unhelpful feedback: This package will not build till the following sections are corrected: Now running lintian... W: cliftontestsuite source: no-section-field-for-source E: cliftontestsuite source: debian-files-li

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

Right, my first attempt to package produced a diff.gz containing cliftontestsuite_0.1-1.diff. So I uploaded that and got this back: Hi We need the debian source package directory tar.gz’d and sent in as the package in the correct archive format as recommended in the following documents. Many

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

On 24 April 2014 14:50, Peter Smout wrote: > Hi, > As a complete novice following this thread wit interest, I am put off > compiling my small (but hopefully) useful prog to a .deb and will continue > to call it from a script ;( > > This is a shame as I was hoping to expand my programme and and add

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On 24/04/14 15:07, Peter Smout wrote: My small prog is a long way from being ready, it works for me, but for everyone is a big jump & alot more testing to be done ;) Then I shall start on the GUI (again so as I can say "I did that") Then maybe once all of that is done I will feel confident enou

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

On 24/04/14 14:59, Alan James Jenkins wrote: Hey Pete, From experience I know that the worst part of getting a piece of software packaged is the initial setup. Once that is done and the infrastructure is in place it is easy to keep updating the package. However as you have seen it can be a real

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On 24/04/14 14:50, Peter Smout wrote: On 24/04/14 14:43, Gareth France wrote: On 24/04/14 14:41, Alan James Jenkins wrote: The -uc is what tells it to not sign the changes and -us tells it not to sign the sources FYI (found in the man page of dpkg-buildpackage). On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:38, Alan

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

Hey Pete, From experience I know that the worst part of getting a piece of software packaged is the initial setup. Once that is done and the infrastructure is in place it is easy to keep updating the package. However as you have seen it can be a real pain in the bum to get setup if you have not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

On 24/04/14 14:43, Gareth France wrote: On 24/04/14 14:41, Alan James Jenkins wrote: The -uc is what tells it to not sign the changes and -us tells it not to sign the sources FYI (found in the man page of dpkg-buildpackage). On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:38, Alan James Jenkins wrote: My problem was

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

Yeah no worries mate it happens to all of us =). On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:43, Gareth France wrote: > On 24/04/14 14:41, Alan James Jenkins wrote: >> The -uc is what tells it to not sign the changes and -us tells it not to >> sign the sources FYI (found in the man page of dpkg-buildpackage). >> >>

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However the build binary command doesn't. Ah well, i don't need that right now so that's my rainy day project. On 24/04/14 14:42, Alan James Jenkins wrote: No problem mate =) glad its sorted. On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:41, Gareth France wrote: On 24/04/14 14:38, Alan James Jenkins wrote: Hey Ga

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No problem mate =) glad its sorted. On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:41, Gareth France wrote: > On 24/04/14 14:38, Alan James Jenkins wrote: >> Hey Gareth, >> >> Just looked up how to build a package without signing and supposedly this >> builds an unsigned source package: >> >> debuild -i -us -uc -S >>

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On 24/04/14 14:41, Alan James Jenkins wrote: The -uc is what tells it to not sign the changes and -us tells it not to sign the sources FYI (found in the man page of dpkg-buildpackage). On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:38, Alan James Jenkins wrote: My problem was that I really wasn't sure where to turn

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The -uc is what tells it to not sign the changes and -us tells it not to sign the sources FYI (found in the man page of dpkg-buildpackage). On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:38, Alan James Jenkins wrote: > Hey Gareth, > > Just looked up how to build a package without signing and supposedly this > builds

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

On 24/04/14 14:38, Alan James Jenkins wrote: Hey Gareth, Just looked up how to build a package without signing and supposedly this builds an unsigned source package: debuild -i -us -uc -S and this builds the binary: debuild -i -us -uc -b Give that a try =) On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:22, Gareth

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

Hey Gareth, Just looked up how to build a package without signing and supposedly this builds an unsigned source package: debuild -i -us -uc -S and this builds the binary: debuild -i -us -uc -b Give that a try =) On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:22, Gareth France wrote: > >> Looks like some other err

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

Looks like some other errors in your debian/control file layout. https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html is the canonical (heu) documentation for what should be in there. Al. Hooray! I've figured it out! I just had to juggle the order of the entries in control and sepa

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their tools asset register. This sounds interesting, and I'll have to check it out :) it was years ago - interfacing with a SmartPat 5000 (?) > Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 11:36:50 +0100 > From: gareth.fra...@gmail.com > To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-

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50 +0100 > From: gareth.fra...@gmail.com > To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre > > On 24/04/14 11:33, Alan James Jenkins wrote: > > Agreed, > > > > Give us the contents of the files in debian/ so we can try figur

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Thanks for taking the time. I get the feeling I'm right there at the finish line and just need one more push. On 24/04/14 11:41, Alan James Jenkins wrote: Yeah no worries mate and yes I hate the aggressive stance people sometimes take too. I tend to avoid posting on forums as I hate responses

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Yeah no worries mate and yes I hate the aggressive stance people sometimes take too. I tend to avoid posting on forums as I hate responses like that. Python in particular is a fantastic language to learn and it forces you to use good best practices if you aim to follow pep-8. Looking at the Co

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On 24/04/14 11:33, Alan James Jenkins wrote: Agreed, Give us the contents of the files in debian/ so we can try figure out what its choking on. (I am not an expert on debian packaging but I will do my best to help you). On 24 Apr 2014, at 11:31, Gareth France wrote: Control: Package: Clif

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On 24/04/14 11:31, Alan James Jenkins wrote: Also Gareth, Debian packaging is a pain until you get used to it. But on the plus side its a good skill to have if you want to help out the Ubuntu community as you can become a package maintainer once you get proficient and have the time for it. I

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Agreed, Give us the contents of the files in debian/ so we can try figure out what its choking on. (I am not an expert on debian packaging but I will do my best to help you). On 24 Apr 2014, at 11:31, Gareth France wrote: > On 24/04/14 11:28, Alan Pope wrote: >> On 24 April 2014 11:24, Gareth

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On 24/04/14 11:28, Alan Pope wrote: On 24 April 2014 11:24, Gareth France wrote: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S -sa dpkg-buildpackage: source package cliftontestsuite dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.1-1 dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution UNRELEASED dpkg-buildpackage: sourc

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Also Gareth, Debian packaging is a pain until you get used to it. But on the plus side its a good skill to have if you want to help out the Ubuntu community as you can become a package maintainer once you get proficient and have the time for it. On 24 Apr 2014, at 11:28, Alan Pope wrote: > O

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

On 24/04/14 11:28, Alan Pope wrote: On 24 April 2014 11:24, Gareth France wrote: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S -sa dpkg-buildpackage: source package cliftontestsuite dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.1-1 dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution UNRELEASED dpkg-buildpackage: sourc

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On 24 April 2014 11:24, Gareth France wrote: > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S -sa > dpkg-buildpackage: source package cliftontestsuite > dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.1-1 > dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution UNRELEASED > dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Gareth > dpkg-s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

On 24 April 2014 11:22, Gareth France wrote: > I have already dealt with many, many errors. Trust me it feels endless right > now! So I need to compress my source? There's the compressed tarball containing your pristine source. Then there's the directory you're working in, building your app in. Y

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On 24/04/14 11:18, Alan Pope wrote: Hi Gareth, On 24 April 2014 10:47, Gareth France wrote: .Can nobody help me with this debuild command? It just seems to throw up endless error messages. Not endless, only a few. This package has a Debian revision number but there does not seem to be an a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

On 24/04/14 11:18, Alan Pope wrote: Hi Gareth, On 24 April 2014 10:47, Gareth France wrote: .Can nobody help me with this debuild command? It just seems to throw up endless error messages. Not endless, only a few. This package has a Debian revision number but there does not seem to be an a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

Hi Gareth, On 24 April 2014 10:47, Gareth France wrote: > .Can nobody help me with this debuild command? It just seems to throw up > endless error messages. > Not endless, only a few. > This package has a Debian revision number but there does not seem to be > an appropriate original tar file or

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

On 23/04/14 20:24, Matthew Wild wrote: On 23 April 2014 16:56, Gareth France wrote: On 23/04/14 08:26, Alan Pope wrote: Hi Gareth, On 23 April 2014 08:14, Gareth France wrote: I have a perl script I wish to publish but doing so seems rather akin to pulling teeth! I'm trying to package it as

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I have muddled my way through the packaging process so far and I have to say it feels like pulling teeth! I know Canonical had that big drive a while back to get more people publishing, I can see why they don't! Why isn't there an easy way to publish your code yet? I'm 99% of the way there and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

On 23/04/14 20:24, Matthew Wild wrote: On 23 April 2014 16:56, Gareth France wrote: On 23/04/14 08:26, Alan Pope wrote: Hi Gareth, On 23 April 2014 08:14, Gareth France wrote: I have a perl script I wish to publish but doing so seems rather akin to pulling teeth! I'm trying to package it as

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

On 23 April 2014 16:56, Gareth France wrote: > On 23/04/14 08:26, Alan Pope wrote: > > Hi Gareth, > > On 23 April 2014 08:14, Gareth France wrote: > > I have a perl script I wish to publish but doing so seems rather akin to > pulling teeth! I'm trying to package it as an executable but this doesn

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On 23/04/14 08:26, Alan Pope wrote: Hi Gareth, On 23 April 2014 08:14, Gareth France wrote: I have a perl script I wish to publish but doing so seems rather akin to pulling teeth! I'm trying to package it as an executable but this doesn't seem to work. Can anyone advise me what format it needs

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On 23/04/14 15:42, Colin Law wrote: On 23 April 2014 15:39, Gareth France wrote: On 23/04/14 15:37, Alan James Jenkins wrote: Also try: which seaward If that shows /usr/bin/seaward your terminal is finding the command in your path. Reason for the `file /usr/bin/seaward` was to determine whet

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On 23/04/14 15:40, Alan James Jenkins wrote: Good stuff glad you got it working =). On 23 Apr 2014, at 15:39, Gareth France wrote: Not yet I haven't. If you run it without specifying the correct inputs it just crashes with a file not found error. It works but is very clunky. Maybe I could p

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On 23 April 2014 15:39, Gareth France wrote: > On 23/04/14 15:37, Alan James Jenkins wrote: >> >> Also try: >> >> which seaward >> >> If that shows /usr/bin/seaward your terminal is finding the command in >> your path. Reason for the `file /usr/bin/seaward` was to determine whether >> or not it wa

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Good stuff glad you got it working =). On 23 Apr 2014, at 15:39, Gareth France wrote: > On 23/04/14 15:37, Alan James Jenkins wrote: >> Also try: >> >> which seaward >> >> If that shows /usr/bin/seaward your terminal is finding the command in your >> path. Reason for the `file /usr/bin/seawar

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On 23/04/14 15:37, Alan James Jenkins wrote: Also try: which seaward If that shows /usr/bin/seaward your terminal is finding the command in your path. Reason for the `file /usr/bin/seaward` was to determine whether or not it was a valid symbolic link but tbh the ls -la /usr/bin/seaward showed

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Also try: which seaward If that shows /usr/bin/seaward your terminal is finding the command in your path. Reason for the `file /usr/bin/seaward` was to determine whether or not it was a valid symbolic link but tbh the ls -la /usr/bin/seaward showed that it was a symlink to /usr/bin/CTS/seaward

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On 23 April 2014 15:22, Gareth France wrote: > On 23/04/14 15:18, Alan James Jenkins wrote: > > Could you please give us the output of these commands: > > echo $PATH > > /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games > > > ls -la /usr/bin/seaward > > -rwxr

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OK next command to try: file /usr/bin/seaward On 23 Apr 2014, at 15:27, Gareth France wrote: > On 23/04/14 15:24, Alan James Jenkins wrote: >> Going on what those commands reported you should be good to run seaward as >> the script is in your path, is executable to everyone and has the correct

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On 23/04/14 15:24, Alan James Jenkins wrote: Going on what those commands reported you should be good to run seaward as the script is in your path, is executable to everyone and has the correct interpreter set in the shebang. Is it not working? On 23 Apr 2014, at 15:22, Gareth France wrote:

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Going on what those commands reported you should be good to run seaward as the script is in your path, is executable to everyone and has the correct interpreter set in the shebang. Is it not working? On 23 Apr 2014, at 15:22, Gareth France wrote: > On 23/04/14 15:18, Alan James Jenkins wrote:

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On 23/04/14 15:18, Alan James Jenkins wrote: Could you please give us the output of these commands: echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games ls -la /usr/bin/seaward -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6844 Apr 23 15:09 /usr/bin/CTS/seaward hea

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Could you please give us the output of these commands: echo $PATH ls -la /usr/bin/seaward head -n1 /usr/bin/seaward Thanks, Alan On 23 Apr 2014, at 15:17, Gareth France wrote: > On 23/04/14 15:15, Stuart Ward wrote: >> >> On 23 April 2014 15:07, Gareth France wrote: >> I have tried renamin

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On 23/04/14 15:15, Stuart Ward wrote: On 23 April 2014 15:07, Gareth France > wrote: I have tried renaming the file but still get a 'Command not found' error. Any ideas My guess it that it will be permissions. what do you see with a ls -l /usr/bin/sea

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If you're just running in a local directory and it's chmodded 755, you have to execute it with slashdot: ./seaward s/ On 23 April 2014 15:07, Gareth France wrote: > On 23/04/14 10:36, Alan Pope wrote: > >> On 23 April 2014 10:31, Gareth France wrote: >> >>> On 23/04/14 10:27, Alan Lord wrote:

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On 23 April 2014 15:07, Gareth France wrote: > I have tried renaming the file but still get a 'Command not found' error. > Any ideas > My guess it that it will be permissions. what do you see with a ls -l /usr/bin/seaward -- Stuart Ward M +44 7782325143 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://li

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As I understand it the way this should be set up is: create a directory /usr/share/myappname put all the resources of the script app there ln -s /usr/share/myappname/myappname /usr/bin/myappname Stuart -- Stuart Ward M +44 7782325143 On 23 April 2014 10:39, Gareth France wrote: > On 23/04/

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On 23/04/14 10:36, Alan Pope wrote: On 23 April 2014 10:31, Gareth France wrote: On 23/04/14 10:27, Alan Lord wrote: So does anyone have any ideas about packaging up this script? I now have information about how to package it for submission but I still need a way to run the program from the co

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On 23/04/14 10:36, Alan Pope wrote: On 23 April 2014 10:31, Gareth France wrote: On 23/04/14 10:27, Alan Lord wrote: So does anyone have any ideas about packaging up this script? I now have information about how to package it for submission but I still need a way to run the program from the co

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On 23 April 2014 10:31, Gareth France wrote: > On 23/04/14 10:27, Alan Lord wrote: >>> >>> So does anyone have any ideas about packaging up this script? I now have >>> information about how to package it for submission but I still need a >>> way to run the program from the command line without cal

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On 23/04/14 10:27, Alan Lord wrote: So does anyone have any ideas about packaging up this script? I now have information about how to package it for submission but I still need a way to run the program from the command line without calling perl. If your script is executable and has the right "s

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So does anyone have any ideas about packaging up this script? I now have information about how to package it for submission but I still need a way to run the program from the command line without calling perl. If your script is executable and has the right "shebang" at the start you will not ne

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OK, no problem. Been there as the saying goes. On second thoughts I haven't, there wasn't email then. :) Colin So does anyone have any ideas about packaging up this script? I now have information about how to package it for submission but I still need a way to run the program from the comm

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On 23 April 2014 09:37, Gareth France wrote: > >> Thanks Alan. I was pointing out a misunderstanding on his part that >> might have been important to him. In an earlier post he said "I don't >> want the code to be accessable by anybody." whereas if he publishes >> the script the way he is sugges

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Thanks Alan. I was pointing out a misunderstanding on his part that might have been important to him. In an earlier post he said "I don't want the code to be accessable by anybody." whereas if he publishes the script the way he is suggesting then it *will* be accessable by everybody, and he sa

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On 23 April 2014 08:58, Alan Pope wrote: > On 23 April 2014 08:56, Colin Law wrote: >> On 23 April 2014 08:41, Gareth France wrote: >>> Take get-iplayer for instance. I install that on my system and (to my >>> knowledge) I am not able to browse through the source. It is buried away in >>> the sy

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On 23/04/14 08:56, Colin Law wrote: On 23 April 2014 08:41, Gareth France wrote: Take get-iplayer for instance. I install that on my system and (to my knowledge) I am not able to browse through the source. It is buried away in the system and just works. That is what I am wanting. You install it

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On 23/04/14 08:56, Colin Law wrote: On 23 April 2014 08:41, Gareth France wrote: Take get-iplayer for instance. I install that on my system and (to my knowledge) I am not able to browse through the source. It is buried away in the system and just works. That is what I am wanting. You install it

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On 23/04/14 08:56, Colin Law wrote: On 23 April 2014 08:41, Gareth France wrote: Take get-iplayer for instance. I install that on my system and (to my knowledge) I am not able to browse through the source. It is buried away in the system and just works. That is what I am wanting. You install it

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On 23 April 2014 08:56, Colin Law wrote: > On 23 April 2014 08:41, Gareth France wrote: >> Take get-iplayer for instance. I install that on my system and (to my >> knowledge) I am not able to browse through the source. It is buried away in >> the system and just works. That is what I am wanting.

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On 23 April 2014 08:41, Gareth France wrote: > Take get-iplayer for instance. I install that on my system and (to my > knowledge) I am not able to browse through the source. It is buried away in > the system and just works. That is what I am wanting. You install it , you > use it, no faffing about

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On 23 April 2014 08:41, Gareth France wrote: > Take get-iplayer for instance. I install that on my system and (to my > knowledge) I am not able to browse through the source. It is buried away in > the system and just works. That is what I am wanting. You install it , you > use it, no faffing about

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Take get-iplayer for instance. I install that on my system and (to my knowledge) I am not able to browse through the source. It is buried away in the system and just works. That is what I am wanting. You install it , you use it, no faffing about. On 23/04/14 08:39, Alan Pope wrote: Hi Gareth,

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Hi Gareth, These two statements are somewhat in conflict.. On 23 April 2014 08:31, Gareth France wrote: > The goal is to create a program which can be installed from the software > centre like any other. > I don't want the code to be accessable by anybody. Not sure what you mean by that. But

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The goal is to create a program which can be installed from the software centre like any other. I don't want the code to be accessable by anybody. I have used pp to package it but the resulting file does nothing. Double clicking doesn't work and running it from a terminal results in a command n

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Hi Gareth, On 23 April 2014 08:14, Gareth France wrote: > I have a perl script I wish to publish but doing so seems rather akin to > pulling teeth! I'm trying to package it as an executable but this doesn't > seem to work. Can anyone advise me what format it needs to be in to submit > it, and how