SteamOS - wine-compholio outdated

[Michael Müller]

Hi!

I followed the instructions to install pipelight on SteamOS (beta repos enabled). The following error occurs:

root@steamos:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# sudo apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite" install pipelight-multi
Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig
Abh▒ngigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut.
Statusinformationen werden eingelesen.... Fertig
Einige Pakete konnten nicht installiert werden. Das kann bedeuten, dass
Sie eine unm▒gliche Situation angefordert haben oder, wenn Sie die
Unstable-Distribution verwenden, dass einige erforderliche Pakete noch
nicht erstellt wurden oder Incoming noch nicht verlassen haben.
Die folgenden Informationen helfen Ihnen vielleicht, die Situation zu l▒sen:

Die folgenden Pakete haben unerf▒llte Abh▒ngigkeiten:
 pipelight-multi : H▒ngt ab von: wine-compholio (>= 1.7.19-1~)
E: Probleme k▒nnen nicht korrigiert werden, Sie haben zur▒ckgehaltene defekte Pakete.

root@steamos:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt-cache policy pipelight-multi wine-compholio
pipelight-multi:
  Installiert: (keine)
  Installationskandidat: 0.2.7
  Versionstabelle:
     0.2.7 0
        500 http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/DarkPlayer:/Pipelight/SteamOS/ ./ Packages
wine-compholio:i386:
  Installiert: (keine)
  Installationskandidat: 1.7.8-1~steamos
  Versionstabelle:
     1.7.8-1~steamos 0
        500 http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/DarkPlayer:/Pipelight/SteamOS/ ./ Packages

Thanks in advance,
FloZ

[Michael Müller (mqchael)]

Hi,

I created a bug report out of your question because this is really a problem which needs to be fixed in our repositories. The main problem is that there is no correct way of building packages for SteamOS. You can not directly build wine in SteamOS as it lacks many development packages while building it on a regular debian wheezy installation results in linking against packages which do not exist on SteamOS.

The wine-compholio version which is currently in our SteamOS repository was the first try to build it on Wheezy resulting in a complete mess (We had to rebuild a lot of packages for SteamOS and needed many tries to not accidentally link against a missing package). We decided to wait for Valve to include the development packages in their SteamOS repositories and even installed a 32 and 64 bit version of SteamOS on our build servers, but this didn't happen yet.

I actually tried to do a real installation some days ago to submit a bug report regarding the missing packages, but on both laptops which I used for testing, steam directly crashes after lightdm hands over to steam. You can shortly see the cursor and then lightdm restarts in endless loop. I managed to get around this by using gdm instead and directly login into the desktop, but it would be great to have a normal installation.

So the main problem is that the wine-compholio version in the SteamOS repos is no longer compatible with Pipelight and we do not know how to build a new version and properly test it.

Michael