The ripole package installs the doc, but not the software itself

[Frédéric Grosshans]

I’ve installed the package ripole (via apt install), but when I try to run the ripole command, I receive an error message telling me to install it.

dpkg-query gives me the following installed files :
~$ dpkg-query -L ripole
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/ripole
/usr/share/doc/ripole/README
/usr/share/doc/ripole/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/ripole/copyright
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/ripole.1.gz

It seems the package only install the doc.

[Frédéric Grosshans (fgrosshans)]

Forgot to say it’s in Ubuntu 16.10

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for reporting.

I found a corresponding bug report in Debian, so I have attached a bug watch.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

As mentioned in the Debian bug report, this issue was fixed in ripole 0.2.0+20081101.0215-3 which is available in Ubuntu 17.04.

Ripole now includes the binary again:
/usr/bin/ripole
/usr/share/doc/ripole/README
/usr/share/doc/ripole/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/ripole/copyright
/usr/share/man/man1/ripole.1.gz
(https://packages.ubuntu.com/zesty/amd64/ripole/filelist)

I'm therefore marking this issue as fix released. If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please perform as much as possible of the SRU Procedure [1] to bring the need to a developer's attention.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure

[Frédéric Grosshans (fgrosshans)]

I confirm this now works for me