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Asked: 2022-03-02 08:08:21 +0800 CST

Can I apt install ./meta-pkg_1.0_all.deb that will depend on local .deb? [duplicate]

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I have a number .deb packages I create and install:

  • pkg1_1.0_all.deb
  • pkg2_1.0_all.deb
  • pkg3_1.0_all.deb

I'm able to install them using sudo dpkg -i pkg1_1.0_all.deb.

Now I want to create a meta package that will depend on all of them, allowing me to only install sudo dpkg -i meta_1.0_all.deb.

I used equivs to create a control file:

Section: misc
Priority: optional
Standards-Version: 3.6.2

Package: bla
Version: 1.0
Depends:
Description:
 long description and info
 .
 second paragraph

and install it.

Then I modified the Depends: to depend on a known package: Depends: tmux and installed it.

Next, I tried to depend on my custom packages: Depends: pkg1 and now installation broke:

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bla:
 bla depends on pkg1; however:
  Package pkg1 is not installed.

which is understandable, as pkg1 is indeed not installed.

I have added my local directory as a debian source following this guide (changed one thing - added [trusted=yes] to the sources list deb [trusted=yes] file:... so it would work)

I hoped this would allow me to sudo apt install ./meta_1.0_all.deb and it would find the dependent package in my current dir, but it failed again with the same error.

What can I do to allow user to install one .deb and to make it install several local .deb packages?

apt

1 Answers

  1. You can glob (use a wildcard *) the install command:

    sudo apt install ./*.deb

    This will select all the packages to install, the same as it would select these packages from a repository. Since all the dependencies are satisfied with a single command, you will have no dependency issues.

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