Installation problem with Debian 7

[G4MJW]

I'm trying to install OpenCPN on a new installation of Debian 7 i386. Fairly new to Linux I followed the brief instruction on the OpenCPN downloads page:

Wheezy (7.0)
Add line saying "deb Index of /opencpn/opencpn/ubuntu oneiric main" to /etc/apt/sources.list
In terminal, execute the following commands:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys C865EB40

then:
sudo apt-get update

then:
sudo apt-get install opencpn

(It returns: downloading 0 . . . 7 . . . 20. . . 40 . . 60 . . 70 . . 100% (etc)

Reading package list . . . Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information . . . Done
Package opencpn is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source.

E: Package ' opencpn ' has no installation candidate


Could someone please tell me what I can do next?

Many thanks

Steve

[ve7mdl]

Hi Steve,

First, I am not a Linux expert, but I have managed to get OpenCPN working several times.

Did you try downloading the installation file? You may find it easier to work with that. Check the download page and you will see several versions. One of them should work on Debian.

The way you are trying to do it may work, but you'll have to set up the right repository before apt-get will do the trick. Alternatively, you can try and build from source. I found the instructions excellent.

Cheers, ....Erik.

[G4MJW]

Hi Erik and many thanks for the info.

Yeh, in Ubuntu I've previously just downloaded the correct file and the Ubuntu installer has installed it and OpenCPN has worked straight off. Same with Windows on my Desktop.

I tried downloading a few versions but in Debian the resident installer does nothing, I assumed as the downloaded versions are incompatible with Debian.

Also, after setting up the repository tried to do it using the Synaptic Package Manager . . . but it never found opencpn.

Was thinking it would be a 2 minute job like with the other OS's but I'll have to leave it for now as it will take my total brain power to get my head around trying to build from source code.

Many thanks, I will do it eventually.

Bye for now

Steve/G4MJW

[nohal]

Steve...
You definitely shouldn't need to build from source. In worst case download the Oneiric deb from the PPA manually and install it using

dpkg -i opencpn*.deb

Hard to say why you can't use the PPA directly, will have a look when I have some Debian machine available. But at first look it gives an impression that it simply isn't in the sources.list - Check whether it's data is actually updated while doing "apt-get update"

Pavel

[G4MJW]

Thanks both for the help.

I have "deb http://ppa.launchpad . net/opencpn/opencpn/ubuntu oneiric main" to /etc/apt/sources.list In the sources list

(I added the spaces . only here to stop it from coming up as a url)

Even when I enter: dpkg -i opencpn*.deb in the terminal, I get:

dpkg: error processing opencpn*.deb (--install) :
Errors were encountered while processing:
opencpn*.deb

Not sure what to try next?

Steve/G4MJW

[nohal]

Show me the exact errors

[nohal]

I dug out a Wheezy VM, downloaded the oneiric deb from launchpad and did:

sudo apt-get install libportaudio2 tinyxml2.6.2 wxgtk2.8
sudo dpkg -i opencpn_3.2.2-0~oneiric1_i386.deb

No problem observed

Pavel

[G4MJW]

I give up with Debian!

I copied and pasted exactly what you set, so I didn't have any mistakes in the typing:

sudo dpkg -i opencpn_3.2.2-0~oneiric1_i386.deb

And it returned:
Error: Cannot access archive: No such file or directory

After to many hours on this I have to leave it and get on with my boat.

Many thanks

Steve/G4MJW

[nohal]

You have to download the deb first...

[G4MJW]

Hi Nohal,

I did . . . that was the first thing I did, Download opencpn_3.2.2-0~oneiric1_i386.deb. Clicked on it like I would for a Ubuntu version expecting the installer to install it but got the message that there was no installer for this package!

Then I sent my first message above on the 30th Jan asking for help. Been round in a circle.


UPDATE:

Just downloaded file: opencpn_3.2.2-1_i386.deb from Sourgeforce, clicked on it and it installed immediately using GDebi Package installer!

My Marine EverMore 920 USB GPS works using GPSD. I've copied across my CM93 folder covering 20,000+ charts of the whole world. All working GREAT now.

Thanks to you both for your help.

Bye for now

Steve/G4MJW