"libbluetooth1 (>=2.19)"??? WTF!!??
 

So I'm trying to install Python from the new-fangled application installer. It has a green arrow, so there's me thinking this has to go automagically.

I click on the arrow, the infamous Application Manager comes up and asks me if it can install a new repository. "Why, sure you can," I reply, and it does its thing...

Until the message comes up that it can't install Python because libbluetooth1 (>=2.19) is apparently missing.

Isn't this thing supposed to be automatic? And where the f**k is libbluetooth1, with or without (>=2.19)?

I have to admit this: It must have taken some genius to be able to screw up the Debian update mechanism to such a degree. Mere stupidity cannot accomplish this...

Re: "libbluetooth1 (>=2.19)"??? WTF!!??
 

The problem with the .install files is - AFAIK - it can only install a single extra repository. So if it has dependencies which are in, say, the Maemo repository - rather than wherever the application is - and you don't have the Maemo repository preconfigured, you'll get that sort of error.

Re: "libbluetooth1 (>=2.19)"??? WTF!!??
 

So why isn't it mentioned what repositories have to be added to be able to install Python? That would be the least one could expect.

I'm not happy about this... :mad:

Re: "libbluetooth1 (>=2.19)"??? WTF!!??
 

Even my abnormally bloated desktop PC /etc/apt/sources.list doesn't contain as many repos as I now have in my N800 ditto. I think the tablet repo structure (from a "global" point of view) needs some rethinking.

The normal Debian way is that _any_ dependencies in an "external" repo (i.e. one outside the single "nominal" repo) are resolved _either_ in the same external repo, _or_ in the "nominal" repo. Never in another "external" repo.

For Debian the single nominal repo would be ftp.debian.org/, for the N800 that would presumably have to be stretched to two, or possibly three repos: repository.maemo.org/ bora, plus certified and non-certified on catalogue.tableteer.nokia.com. But everything else should really follow the rule above: Depend on stuff in either the same repo, or from the three above. Anyway, that's my opinion and I'm going to stick to it.. not that I have any say in the setups though, not having contributed a single line of code so far.. :cool:

Success!!!!
 

Look here:

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ead.php?t=4739

Thanks to the hot tip I got from RogerS here:

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ead.php?t=4754