Make debian packages work out of the box on a variety of Ubuntu versions (12.10, 13.04, 13.10, 14.04) #105
Description
Currently the debian package is build on Ubuntu 12.04.3. It is not guaranteed
to work out of the box on more recent Ubuntu versions.
For example on Ubuntu 13.10 you will get an error like this when running app:
File "/opt/cyan/cyms-base-py27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ctypes/__init__.py", line 340, in __init__
self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
OSError: libudev.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
The problem is that on Ubuntu 12.xx only libudev0 package is available. And on
Ubuntu 13.xx only libudev1 package can be installed. The solution is to create
a link using the "ln" command:
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu$ sudo ln -sf libudev.so.1 libudev.so.0
To resolve this problem in a debian package, a post install script should
create such a link. The debian package is already running some post install
script that set chmod +x on the cefclient and subprocess executables.
When testing various Ubuntu versions, test it along with all dependencies
listed in the deb package, see Issue 99.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 9 Jan 2014 at 8:52