Re: Error: Minuit[.so | .sl | .dl | .a | .dll] does not exist

Christian,

In your Debian packaging, move Minuit to mandatory packages part of the Core. It is hard to imagine an application not requiring minuit. And I am tired too to see so many mails due to packaging problems on Debian/Ubuntu.

Rene Brun

Christian Holm Christensen wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> [Or, do we really have the famous thriller-action novelist in our
> midst? :-)]
>
> On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 00:15 +0200, Tom Clancy wrote:
>
>> Thank you, that works!
>>
> ...
>
>> Dario Berzano <l3g3nd4ryf0x_at_gmail.com> schrieb:
>> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Tom Clancy wrote:
>> > Hi there!
>>
> ...
>
>> > root [0] .x root-test.c
>> > Error in : Minuit[.so | .sl | .dl | .a | .dll]
>> > does not exist in .::/usr/lib/root/5.17
>> > : created default TCanvas with name c1
>> >
>> > Can I install it seperately or what is the best way to solve
>> my problem?
>>
>> You can try to install the "libroot-minuit5.17" package (by
>> apt-get,
>> aptitude, synaptic, or whatsoever). I don't run a precompiled
>> ROOT at
>> the moment, so I can't test it.
>>
>
> Note that Debian (and by extension - Ubuntu too) has three levels of
> "dependencies". Quiting the user's guide:
>
> * Depends: The package needs another package to work. It may need
> a particular version of another program. This dependency is
> extremely common for programming libraries.
> * Recommends: The package works better with another package, but
> does not strictly need it.
> * Suggests: For most purposes, the package works better with
> another package.
>
> Note, that root-system-bin recommends libroot-minuit5.17 | root-fitter.
> You can set-up Synaptic, Aptitude, or even Apt-get to "Consider
> recommended packages as dependencies". Note, that it doesn't mean that
> an uninstallable recommended package will block - only that recommended
> packages will automatically be marked for installation.
>
> Yours,
>
>
Received on Mon May 12 2008 - 10:13:42 CEST