Ubuntu PPA snapshot problem with mt32romdata

[Derpy Derpington]

Hi all-

Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere.

I've added the dev repositories in an attempt to install 1.5 but the package appears to be broken. Synaptic can't seem to find the missing mt32romdata.

I've been trying to find a fix by rummaging around on the net and I suspect it's probably something obvious that's just over my head.

Let me know!

THanks.

[Dominus]

My magic eightball says http://exult.info/docs.php#midi_music
Other than that we probably need more information, for example what package, OS, etc...

[Derpington]

Thanks for the reply. I'll post that info when I get home from work tonight.

Though I'm curious, is my think right in that I'm looking for some kind of Roland 32 emulator that allows me to install 1.5? Or is it something more esoteric?

[Dominus]

I really thunk we need more info
My guess is you are using the launchpad ppa for ubuntu. No idea how that works, but it seems it wants the mt32 roms somwhere...

[Derpy Derpington]

My ignorance of my own operating system is making me self-concious

I have these repositories in my package manager, which seem relevant to what's been said so far:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/gwibber-daily/ppa/ubuntu
http://ppa.launchpad.net/gwibber-daily/ppa/ubuntu
http://ppa.launchpad.net/exult-team/exult-daily/ubuntu
http://ppa.launchpad.net/exult-team/exult-daily/ubuntu

Here's some other info, in case it matters:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 3.2.0-61-generic (i686)

Intel 1.7 ghz w/ 1 gig ram

Anything else on my end that would be helpful?

[Dominus]

I have no further help since I am not using Ubuntu nor do I know how that launchpad thing really works.
Paulo is the one who does the launchpad snapshoths. I'll change the topic and will write him an email.

[paulo]

Well, when you installed it it should ask you for the directory of your roms, same as the games (if you have the console large enough and installed from the cmd line, otherwise it will open a popup asking the same.

A way to 'reset' everything is to write
sudo apt-get purge mt32romdata exult

and reinstall it by
sudo apt-get update
sudo sudo apt-get install exult

It should ask you for your games and rom again (so they can be copied to a multiuser location etc).

[paulo]

opps; on the other hand, i just tested that and it's broken indeed, i'm going to fix it.

[paulo]

mmmh i misinterpreted launchpad dependency mechanism, it only works for 'build-depends' (things that are needed at build time, not runtime, while that package is runtime). There are two obvious solutions - you adding the dep repository, or me copying the built package into the repository.
I'm going to copy the package and then you should be able to install.

But talk about annoying. I was already depending on a 'build-depends' package (a static library) when building so i though that was the best place to put that library (it still is really, since it's shared by more than one program).

[paulo]

you don't need to reset since i copied it btw, just do a sudo apt-get update and then it should work.

Going forward the best way maybe to request the users to also install the other ppa when they go to the launchpad exult ppa page.

[Dominus]

thanks for looking into it