suffix is set to -Unknown in debian wheezy and jessie

[Christian Jakob]

Hi,

I installed a fresh debian jessie the newest yade version (27.2.2015).

I followed installation procedure [1], but cmake gives:

-- Suffix is set to -Unknown

The same happens on wheezy, while it is working on squeeze.

Regards,

Christian

[1] https://yade-dem.org/doc/installation.html#prerequisities

BTW, there is also an unresolved dependecy problem for python-gts and paraview:

root@debian-jessie:/home/christian# aptitude install python-gts
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libwxbase3.0-0{a} libwxgtk3.0-0{a} mayavi2{a} python-apptools{a} python-configobj{a} python-envisage{a} python-gts python-pyface{a}
  python-traits{a} python-traitsui{a} python-vtk{a} python-wxgtk3.0{a} python-wxversion{a} tcl-vtk{a}
0 packages upgraded, 14 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 46.6 MB of archives. After unpacking 171 MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 python-vtk6 : Conflicts: python-vtk but 5.8.0-17.5 is to be installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Remove the following packages:
1) paraview-python
2) python-vtk6

     Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
3) paraview recommends paraview-python

[Anton Gladky (gladky-anton)]

I would split these two issues. The first one (wrong suffix) is probably
due to missing git-package in your system. Or you downloaded
just the fresh tarball?

The dependency problem is strange. Please, show your /etc/apt/sources.list

Cheers

Anton

[Christian Jakob (jakob-ifgt)]

hi anton,

## 1) the problem for the first issue is: git is already installed on my system...

root@debian-jessie:/home/christian# dpkg -l | grep -w git
ii git 1:2.1.4-2.1 amd64 fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
ii git-man 1:2.1.4-2.1 all fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (manual pages)
ii python-git 0.3.2~RC1-3 all Python library to interact with Git repositories
ii python-gitdb 0.5.4-1 amd64 pure-Python git object database

## 2) for the second issue: i use the standard sources.list and added 'contrib non-free' to each line:

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free

# jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free

# jessie-backports, previously on backports.debian.org
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main contrib non-free

[Anton Gladky (gladky-anton)]

Hi Christian,

sorry, I am not able to reproduce any of your problems. I have
even installed the fresh Debian Jessie on virtualbox and everything
works like a charm.

The git is correctly defining the version number (current is
-2015-02-27.git-5a9cb11) and there are no dependency problems.

Did you upgrade your system or it was fresh installation?

Anton

[Christian Jakob (jakob-ifgt)]

I did a fresh installation of jessie and a fresh compilation of yade (downloaded trunk-master.zip from git page).

Maybe the first issue could be fixed by downloading source code via 'git clone'?

For the second issue: I think there is a conflict between different vtk versions (python-gts needs 5.8 and paraview-python needs version 6.1). I removed the packages paraview-python and python-vtk6 and paraview is still working, so it seems to be not critical.

[Anton Gladky (gladky-anton)]

2015-03-02 9:03 GMT+01:00 Christian Jakob <email address hidden>:

> I did a fresh installation of jessie and a fresh compilation of yade
> (downloaded trunk-master.zip from git page).
>
> Maybe the first issue could be fixed by downloading source code via 'git
> clone'?
>

Sure, tarball does not ship necessary git-metadata.

> For the second issue: I think there is a conflict between different vtk
> versions (python-gts needs 5.8 and paraview-python needs version 6.1). I
> removed the packages paraview-python and python-vtk6 and paraview is
> still working, so it seems to be not critical.
>

We were trying to resolve all issues with 5.8 and 6.X conflicts. Hopefully
vtk5.8 will be removed before next Debian release completely.

Cheers

Anton

[Christian Jakob (jakob-ifgt)]

Ok, thanks Anton!