Cannot install autopilot from ppa on phablet device

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄]

To do some testing I wanted to use autopilot, but it fails to install on the latest phablet build:-

phablet@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install libautopilot-qt python-autopilot
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 python-autopilot : Depends: python-qt4 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
phablet@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install python-qt4
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 python-qt4 : Depends: libqt4-dbus (>= 4:4.8.0-1~) but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: libqt4-declarative (>= 4:4.8.0-1~) but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: libqt4-designer (>= 4:4.8.0-1~) but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: libqt4-help (>= 4:4.8.0-1~) but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: libqt4-network (>= 4:4.8.0-1~) but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: libqt4-script (>= 4:4.8.0-1~) but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: libqt4-scripttools (>= 4:4.8.0-1~) but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: libqt4-svg (>= 4:4.8.0-1~) but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: libqt4-test (>= 4:4.8.0-1~) but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: libqt4-xml (>= 4:4.8.0-1~) but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: libqt4-xmlpatterns (>= 4:4.8.0-1~) but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: libqtassistantclient4 (>= 4.6.3) but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.8.0-1~) but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: libqtwebkit4 (>= 2.2~2011week36) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[Thomi Richards (thomir-deactivatedaccount)]

Hi Alan,

Which PPA are you using?

I guess the problem here is that python-qt4 is not available for arm. Do you know if we can make it available? Otherwise we'll need to make the autopilot vis tool optional. hmmmm...

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

 ppa:autopilot/ppa

This was on a device. Here's the steps i was following:-

http://pad.ubuntu.com/39AKusp4gG

Line 25 is where it failed.

I was trying to follow this guide to do some testing on a nexus 7 running ubuntu touch.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Testing/Autopilot

I will test on raring tomorrow, but so far only tested quantal.

[Thomi Richards (thomir-deactivatedaccount)]

Ahhhh, I see. A couple of things:

Autopilot 1.2 does not support the phablet devices. Work is underway right now to release autopilot 1.3, which adds a whole tonne of work to make autopilot platform-agnostic. The phablet team maintain the 'autopilot-phablet' package, which is a stop-gap measure to make the old autopilot 1.2 work on the arm devices. I'm hoping to kill that before the end of Oakland.

I'll confirm this bug, and target it at 1.3. We need to make sure 1.3 works on the devices sooner rather than later anyway, so we can use this bug to track that work.

[Thomi Richards (thomir-deactivatedaccount)]

1.3 is now released for phablet devices. This has been fixed.