Hi,
thanks for the info, we should indeed replace "gdebi" with "gdebi-core".
We'll include this change into the next update.
We prefer to use "gdebi" by default (not dpkg) to be able to
automatically install necessary dependencies from OS repositories (e.g.,
we need gcc & co to install our balloon driver).
"gdebi: command not found" comes from the following call in the install
script:
$PKGMNGR $pkgs || $FALLBACK_PKGMNGR $pkgs
We can suppress stderr here, but on the other hand we will loose
potentially interesting messages in case when gdebi is present but fails
to install a package.
And indeed we don't have this script published at src.openvz.org, likely
due to the tricky way the guest tools are built.
On 12/04/2016 01:39 AM, Ing. Viliam Kubis wrote:
Greetings members,
I was installing vz-guest-tools-lin for openvz7 via the prlctl
installtools command. The inserted CD image contains an install script.
This script attempts to first run noninteractive apt-get -y install
gdebi on debian systems. This pulls in many MBs worth of stuff for
Xorg and GTK, since this package contains the gdebi-gtk graphical
frontend for gdebi.
It is absolutely enough to install gdebi-core, which provides the
required gdebi core in /usr/share/gdebi. The installer falls back to
dpkg -i anyway so I think the whole gdebi installation is unnecessary.
However when you don't install gdebi, the installer spits out many
bash errors (gdebi: command not found) as it it constantly falling
back to dpkg, which happened to me when I didn't configure the VM
network adapter yet. This appears very confusing to the user.
I would love to submit a pull request if I could, but I couldn't find
vz-guest-tools source published anywhere except on official download site.
I just wanted to share a little insight and if this could be improved
in the future, that would be great.
Regards,
Ing. Viliam Kubis :)
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