Can Docker be used for software with unmet dependencies?

validator456 · 03-26-2017, 11:39 AM

Newbie question here, running Ubuntu 16.10.

I wanted to install Brackets on my computer (http://brackets.io/

Problem is that it encountered unmet dependencies: "Dependency is not satisfiable: libgryct 11 (>=1.4.5)"

If you use Docker, would it be possible to install the program anyway?
If so, can you provide a link to a webpage how this could be done?

A big thank you beforehand.

hydrurga · 03-26-2017, 12:18 PM

This doesn't answer your question directly, but I had the same problem on Mint, which no longer has libgcrypt 11 in the repos, and got around it by manually installing the libgcrypt package (64-bit version) from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/mai...b7u4_amd64.deb after reading the following thread:

https://github.com/adobe/brackets/issues/10255

validator456 · 03-27-2017, 03:41 PM

Thank you for your answer, hydrurga. I will look into it, but it seems to me that it is a solution to my problem.

jefro · 03-27-2017, 07:32 PM

Let us know how brackets works out too.

Looks interesting.

sundialsvcs · 03-27-2017, 07:35 PM

Obviously, any software that requires the presence of any other software library ... cannot possibly run without it, no matter what the environment in question may be.

Every now and then, the "software dependency resolution" mechanisms fail to do exactly the right thing automagically, and so you are obliged to install the missing package [version ...] yourself. So it goes ...

simosx · 04-13-2017, 06:21 AM

Ideally, there should be a snap package (or other universal package) for Brackets.
Not there yet,
https://github.com/adobe/brackets/issues/12531

Since we talk about containers here, and Brackets requires an obsolete "libgcrypt11" library, you can install Ubuntu 14.04 in an LXD container (has the old library), then install the distributed Brackets package in there.

Code:

lxc launch ubuntu:14.04 mybrackets
lxc exec mybrackets -- apt-get update
lxc exec mybrackets -- wget https://github.com/adobe/brackets/releases/download/release-1.9/Brackets.Release.1.9.64-bit.deb
lxc exec mybrackets -- dpkg -i Brackets.Release.1.9.64-bit.deb
lxc exec mybrackets -- apt-get -f install

This creates a container called "mybrackets", running Ubuntu 14.04. Then, it runs a "apt update" inside the container.
Afterwards, it downloads the read-made Brackets .deb package and installs it with "dpkg -i".
There are dependencies there, therefore, we run "apt-get -f install" to sort them out.

You then need to be able to SSH into "mycontainer".
This means that you need to place your SSH public key in the account "ubuntu" (/home/ubuntu/.ssh/authorized_keys) in the container.
Here is how to do this:

Code:

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | lxc exec mybrackets -- sudo --login --user ubuntu tee /home/ubuntu/.ssh/authorized_keys

Finally, let's run "brackets" in the container and have it appear on our desktop X.

Code:

ssh -X ubuntu@mybrackets.lxd brackets

That's it.