whalebird-desktop Can't install deb on Ubuntu 20.04

Can't install deb on Ubuntu 20.04

Open dhs-rec opened this issue 2 years ago • 6 comments

Description

When installing the downloaded Debian package I get the following error:

# apt-get install ./Whalebird-4.5.2-linux-x64.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'whalebird' instead of './Whalebird-4.5.2-linux-x64.deb'
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   whalebird (4.5.2)
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/96.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 503 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 ./Whalebird-4.5.2-linux-x64.deb whalebird amd64 4.5.2 [96.1 MB]
(Reading database ... 679455 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../Whalebird-4.5.2-linux-x64.deb ...
Unpacking whalebird (4.5.2) ...
dpkg: error processing archive ./Whalebird-4.5.2-linux-x64.deb (--unpack):
 error creating hard link './usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/whalebird.png': Invalid cross-device link
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ./Whalebird-4.5.2-linux-x64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I guess it's trying to create a hard link (ln) where it should create a symbolic link (ln -s)...

How To Reproduce

Download Debian package
Install using above command

Your Environment

OS: Ubuntu 20.04
Whalebird Version: 4.5.2

Mar 25 '22 09:03 dhs-rec

I can install it in clean ubuntu:20.04. What files are there in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256 ?

Mar 25 '22 11:03 h3poteto

That's not relevant. The keyword above is cross-device link. The package is trying to create a hard link across filesystem borders, which is not possible. On your system the link source and target may reside on the same filesystem, but on mine that's obviously not the case. Therefor: Simply use a symbolic link.

Mar 25 '22 11:03 dhs-rec

This is electron-builder's issue. https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues/5721

Mar 25 '22 13:03 h3poteto

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