Sourcing common functions in debian maintainer scripts - shell

I have a number of common functions that I would like to source, so it's available in the debian maintainer scripts (preinst/postinst/prerm/postrm), call it common.sh.
If I add "common.sh" to the DEBIAN directory, dpkg complains:
dpkg-deb: warning: conffile '' is not a plain file
dpkg-deb: warning: ignoring 1 warning about the control file(s)
However, the package builds properly.
When I install, it's difficult to find the proper directory where my common.sh exists. In preinst it seems to be looking for /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci, while in postinst it seems to look for /var/lib/dpkg/info.
I could stick the common.sh in a tmp directory and delete it later, but I get the feeling that files installed to the OS should remain their until dpkg can remove them.
At any rate, I'm wondering what the true 'debian' way of doing this would be?

The preinst is run from some implementation defined directory because the package isn't unpacked into its proper location in the filesystem yet.
I'm pretty sure forcing extra files into the DEBIAN part is not allowed for standard packages. You could install common.sh into the filesystem, usually under /usr/share/yourpackagename/, and the use it from the postinst and prerm scripts.
It doesn't work for preinst and postrm as the package contents are not available then.

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Why can this dynamic library file include all dependencies? [duplicate]

Program is part of the Xenomai test suite, cross-compiled from Linux PC into Linux+Xenomai ARM toolchain.
# echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/lib
# ls /lib
ld-2.3.3.so libdl-2.3.3.so libpthread-0.10.so
ld-linux.so.2 libdl.so.2 libpthread.so.0
libc-2.3.3.so libgcc_s.so libpthread_rt.so
libc.so.6 libgcc_s.so.1 libstdc++.so.6
libcrypt-2.3.3.so libm-2.3.3.so libstdc++.so.6.0.9
libcrypt.so.1 libm.so.6
# ./clocktest
./clocktest: error while loading shared libraries: libpthread_rt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Is the .1 at the end part of the filename? What does that mean anyway?
Your library is a dynamic library.
You need to tell the operating system where it can locate it at runtime.
To do so,
we will need to do those easy steps:
Find where the library is placed if you don't know it.
sudo find / -name the_name_of_the_file.so
Check for the existence of the dynamic library path environment variable(LD_LIBRARY_PATH)
echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
If there is nothing to be displayed, add a default path value (or not if you wish to)
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
We add the desired path, export it and try the application.
Note that the path should be the directory where the path.so.something is. So if path.so.something is in /my_library/path.so.something, it should be:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/my_library/
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
./my_app
Reference to source
Here are a few solutions you can try:
ldconfig
As AbiusX pointed out: If you have just now installed the library, you may simply need to run ldconfig.
sudo ldconfig
ldconfig creates the necessary links and cache to the most recent
shared libraries found in the directories specified on the command
line, in the file /etc/ld.so.conf, and in the trusted directories
(/lib and /usr/lib).
Usually your package manager will take care of this when you install a new library, but not always, and it won't hurt to run ldconfig even if that is not your issue.
Dev package or wrong version
If that doesn't work, I would also check out Paul's suggestion and look for a "-dev" version of the library. Many libraries are split into dev and non-dev packages. You can use this command to look for it:
apt-cache search <libraryname>
This can also help if you simply have the wrong version of the library installed. Some libraries are published in different versions simultaneously, for example, Python.
Library location
If you are sure that the right package is installed, and ldconfig didn't find it, it may just be in a nonstandard directory. By default, ldconfig looks in /lib, /usr/lib, and directories listed in /etc/ld.so.conf and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. If your library is somewhere else, you can either add the directory on its own line in /etc/ld.so.conf, append the library's path to $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or move the library into /usr/lib. Then run ldconfig.
To find out where the library is, try this:
sudo find / -iname *libraryname*.so*
(Replace libraryname with the name of your library)
If you go the $LD_LIBRARY_PATH route, you'll want to put that into your ~/.bashrc file so it will run every time you log in:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/path/to/library
Update
While what I write below is true as a general answer about shared libraries, I think the most frequent cause of these sorts of message is because you've installed a package, but not installed the -dev version of that package.
Well, it's not lying - there is no libpthread_rt.so.1 in that listing. You probably need to re-configure and re-build it so that it depends on the library you have, or install whatever provides libpthread_rt.so.1.
Generally, the numbers after the .so are version numbers, and you'll often find that they are symlinks to each other, so if you have version 1.1 of libfoo.so, you'll have a real file libfoo.so.1.0, and symlinks foo.so and foo.so.1 pointing to the libfoo.so.1.0. And if you install version 1.1 without removing the other one, you'll have a libfoo.so.1.1, and libfoo.so.1 and libfoo.so will now point to the new one, but any code that requires that exact version can use the libfoo.so.1.0 file. Code that just relies on the version 1 API, but doesn't care if it's 1.0 or 1.1 will specify libfoo.so.1. As orip pointed out in the comments, this is explained well at here.
In your case, you might get away with symlinking libpthread_rt.so.1 to libpthread_rt.so. No guarantees that it won't break your code and eat your TV dinners, though.
You need to ensure that you specify the library path during
linking when you compile your .c file:
gcc -I/usr/local/include xxx.c -o xxx -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-R/usr/local/lib
The -Wl,-R part tells the resulting binary to also look for the library
in /usr/local/lib at runtime before trying to use the one in /usr/lib/.
Try adding LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which indicates search paths, to your ~/.bashrc file
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/path_to_your_library
It works!
The linux.org reference page explains the mechanics, but doesn't explain any of the motivation behind it :-(
For that, see Sun Linker and Libraries Guide
In addition, note that "external versioning" is largely obsolete on Linux, because symbol versioning (a GNU extension) allows you to have multiple incompatible versions of the same function to be present in a single library. This extension allowed glibc to have the same external version: libc.so.6 for the last 10 years.
cd /home/<user_name>/
sudo vi .bash_profile
add these lines at the end
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:<any other paths you want>
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Another possible solution depending on your situation.
If you know that libpthread_rt.so.1 is the same as libpthread_rt.so then you can create a symlink by:
ln -s /lib/libpthread_rt.so /lib/libpthread_rt.so.1
Then ls -l /lib should now show the symlink and what it points to.
I had a similar error and it didn't fix with giving LD_LIBRARY_PATH in ~/.bashrc .
What solved my issue is by adding .conf file and loading it.
Go to terminal an be in su.
gedit /etc/ld.so.conf.d/myapp.conf
Add your library path in this file and save.(eg: /usr/local/lib).
You must run the following command to activate path:
ldconfig
Verify Your New Library Path:
ldconfig -v | less
If this shows your library files, then you are good to go.
running:
sudo ldconfig
was enough to fix my issue.
I had this error when running my application with Eclipse CDT on Linux x86.
To fix this:
In Eclipse:
Run as -> Run configurations -> Environment
Set the path
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/my_lib_directory_path
Wanted to add, if your libraries are in a non standard path, run ldconfig followed by the path.
For instance I had to run:
sudo ldconfig /opt/intel/oneapi/mkl/2021.2.0/lib/intel64
to make R compile against Intel MKL
All I had to do was run:
sudo apt-get install libfontconfig1
I was in the folder located at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu and it worked perfectly.
Try to install lib32z1:
sudo apt-get install lib32z1
If you are running your application on Microsoft Windows, the path to dynamic libraries (.dll) need to be defined in the PATH environment variable.
If you are running your application on UNIX, the path to your dynamic libraries (.so) need to be defined in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.
The error occurs as the system cannot refer to the library file mentioned. Take the following steps:
Running locate libpthread_rt.so.1 will list the path of all the files with that name. Let's suppose a path is /home/user/loc.
Copy the path and run cd home/USERNAME. Replace USERNAME with the name of the current active user with which you want to run the file.
Run vi .bash_profile and at the end of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH parameter, just before ., add the line /lib://home/usr/loc:.. Save the file.
Close terminal and restart the application. It should run.
I got this error and I think its the same reason of yours
error while loading shared libraries: libnw.so: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory
Try this. Fix permissions on files:
cd /opt/Popcorn (or wherever it is)
chmod -R 555 * (755 if not ok)
I use Ubuntu 18.04
Installing the corresponding -dev package worked for me,
sudo apt install libgconf2-dev
Before installing the above package, I was getting the below error:
turtl: error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I got this error and I think its the same reason of yours
error while loading shared libraries: libnw.so: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory
Try this. Fix permissions on files:
sudo su
cd /opt/Popcorn (or wherever it is)
chmod -R 555 * (755 if not ok)
chown -R root:root *
A similar problem can be found here.
I've tried the mentioned solution and it actually works.
The solutions in the previous questions may work. But the following is an easy way to fix it.
It works by reinstalling the package libwbclient
in fedora:
dnf reinstall libwbclient
You can read about libraries here:
https://domiyanyue.medium.com/c-development-tutorial-4-static-and-dynamic-libraries-7b537656163e

Installing without package manager, why does executable binary fail with "command not found" unless I make the commands start with "./"?

I'm learning to use GNU/Linux and I want to know how to install programs that cannot be installed with the package manager.
I downloaded the tarball with the Linux 64-bit Binaries (including one called "haxelib"), extracted it, changed directory in the terminal to their location (~/Downloads/things/haxe_20201231082044_5e33a78aa/), and used chmod to make them executable.
If I try a command such as haxelib list, then the terminal returns
haxelib: command not found
If I try ./haxelib list (the same command but with ./ at the start) instead, then the command works as expected.
Why can't I use it without the ./? Programs installed with the package manager can be used without the ./.
Edit: I should probably also ask: where should I put the files from the tarball? Should they all go together in the same place? I have a feeling that a folder named "things" in my Downloads folder is not the best place for them.

make install can't find aclocal

I'm trying to compile a code to run in parallel on a supercomputer. I know that others have compiled this code to run on the same computer, but for some reason I am having trouble even when using the same methodology as them. For now I'm just trying to compile the code to run in serial as that should be easier to troubleshoot.
configure seems to work correctly.
However make install returns the following:
> make install
CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd .. && /bin/sh /home1/username123/code123/config/missing aclocal-1.13 -I ./config -I /home1/username123/code123/build-tools/aclocal -I /usr/local/share/aclocal
aclocal-1.13: error: couldn't open directory '/usr/local/share/aclocal': No such file or directory
Makefile:534: recipe for target '../aclocal.m4' failed
make: *** [../aclocal.m4] Error 1
aclocal is indeed not located at /usr/local/share/aclocal, it is located at /usr/bin/aclocal - but as /usr/bin is in my path, I don't understand why the location is an issue.
As has been made clear in comments on the question, the problem was that the project sources were copied onto the target system in a way that failed to preserve their original timestamps. The Autotools, through make, use file timestamps to determine which files are out of date, and in particular, Autools-generated Makefiles contain rules for rebuilding the build system itself that can be triggered this way.
It is not ordinarily necessary or desirable to rebuild an Autotools project's build system, except in conjunction with actually performing maintenance on it. It is often the case, in fact, that the necessary support for that is not available locally. To avoid the build system thinking that it needs to rebuild itself, it is important to preserve the file timestamps from the distribution archive. For some packages, it also works to pass the --disable-maintainer-mode argument to the configure script, but by no means do all Autotools configure scripts support that.
The archive extraction tools for the typical archive formats in which Autotools-based packages are distributed do, by default, preserve timestamps when unpacking, so the ordinary procedure of
unpack the archive on the target system (e.g. tar xzf foo-1.2.3.tar.gz)
change to the unpacked source directory (e.g. cd foo-1.2.3)
configure; make; make install
normally does the right thing. Substituting something else for (1), however, such as copying the unpacked source tree from somewhere else, may cause the package to think it needs to rebuild the build system. If that works correctly then it's no big deal, but it is not uncommon that it doesn't. That's what happened here, and following the standard procedure described above solved the problem.

When postupgrade is indeed called in MacOSX pkg?

Good morning, I am reading about the prepared scripts in MacOSX to use when creating a pkg for my application.
In particular, I have some doubts how to make sure that postupgrade script is used.
What I read till now is:
from here
The postupgrade script is run after files have been installed and before the postflight script if one is defined. This script is run only if the component has been previously installed. If the script does not return an exit status of zero, Installer will declare the installation has failed.
Ok then it seems that postupgrade will just run in automatic when an upgrade is done. BUT...from man pkgbuild, section --scripts scripts-path
Archive the entire contents of scripts-path as the package scripts. If this directory contains scripts named preinstall and/or postinstall, these will be run as the top-level scripts of the package. If you want to run scripts for specific bundles, you must specify those in a component property list; see more at COMPONENT PROPERTY LIST. Any other files under scripts-path will be used only if the top-level or component-specific scripts invoke them.
So, it seems I should add it to the component.plist, since they do not say anything about postupgrade. BUT it seems strange, I would put there more specific script, not the postupgrade script.
Reading more, I found it that refers to this, where there is written:
To determine whether a Package has already been installed or not, Installer.app is having a look at the content of the following directory: /Library/Receipts. If there's a file named PackageName.pkg within it, then the Package has already been installed, otherwise it's the first install.
Well, my application leaves no pkg file there, but yes it is present in the InstallHistory.plist.
Well, finally the question: should I set the upgrade script somewhere, for example in the component.plist file? The last link seems to be out of date, something has changed? How can I put a pkg file inside /Library/Receipts? Or better, how can be sure if my installation is indeed an installation and not an upgrade, or viceversa?
Thanks everyone, I am a bit confused...

configure command not found cygwin

This question has been asked many time but I am not able to resolve the problem from them so I am asking
I had installed Cygwin a few days ago.I tried using ./configure command but it says
-bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
I tried using
where configure
but I got the output
INFO: Could not find files for the given pattern(s).
then I tried grep configureand I got this output
/etc/bash_completion.d/configure
/usr/i686-pc-cygwin/sys-root/usr/share/libtool/libltdl/configure
/usr/share/ELFIO/configure
/usr/share/libtool/libltdl/configure
I tried to export the path and then run the ./configure but it also didn't worked.
I find no executable file named as configure in my cygwin bin directory.
Does it mean that I have to add configure file manually?How can I correct it?
NOTE :- I had also tried sh configure but it also didn't worked
If a software project is set up to be built using autoconf, that tool generates a script canonically called configure. It queries the system for various parameters that are subsequently used in the build, and is specific to the software package to be built. Different software projects have different configure scripts. They are all called configure, but their contents are not the same.
So, to actually build such a software project once that script was set up (usually done by the maintainers when packaging the source tarball for distribution), you call:
tar xzf <tarball>.gz # or xjf <tarball>.bz2 or whatever
cd <sourcedir> # the one you just untarred
./configure
make
make install
Note the prefix ./, which means "located in this directory" (i.e. the top directory of that project's source tree).
Actually, the better procedure is the so-called "out-of-tree build", when you set up a different directory for the binaries to be built in, so the source tree remains unmodified:
tar xzf <tarball>.gz # or xjf <tarball>.bz2 or whatever
mkdir builddir
cd builddir
../<sourcedir>/configure
make
make install
So, there is supposed to be no configure executable in your PATH, you are supposed to call the script of that name from the source tree you are trying to build from.
If I correctly understood...
Configure is not an application that should be installed on your system, but script that should be delivered with source code to prepare for make command. File named configure should be in the main directory of source code.
I understand that this is an old question. However many might find this solution helpful.
Normally we use the make command to compile a downloaded source in cygwin. In many cases it contains a autogen.sh file. Running that file with
bash autogen.sh
will in many case solve the problem. At least it solved my issue and i could then use the make command

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