[HELP] theme to deb file error at install
 

i am trying to package a theme and i am getting this error:

sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~/MyDocs] > fakeroot dpkg -i shrek_0.1_all.deb
(Reading database ... 22870 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace shrek 0.1 (using shrek_0.1_all.deb) ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute old pre-removal script: No such file or directory
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute new pre-removal script: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing shrek_0.1_all.deb (--install):
subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: No such file or directory
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
shrek_0.1_all.deb
[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~/MyDocs] >



Does anyone know where it come from?

thanx

Re: theme to deb file problem
 

anyone?....

Re: theme to deb file problem
 

nobody there?...:(

Re: theme to deb file problem
 

This should have been posted in design or development.

It sounds like you have broken/bad/missing scripts in your debian directory of your packaged theme.

Re: theme to deb file problem
 

sorry for posting it in the wrong section. Is there any tutorial for creating or packaging a theme to a deb file? i didn't find anything....:(

Re: theme to deb file problem
 

How did you create the theme? The theme maker program developer (Kontori?) was going to provide a way to do so. I don't know if he has, yet.

Re: theme to deb file problem
 

i just took the alpha theme and i modified it....i found on the internet how to put it in a deb file but for some reson i have got the error above and i don't know what to do...kind of stuck..:)

Re: theme to deb file problem
 

Short of learning the debian package system yourself and making up packaging, your best bet is to start with a theme that's already packaged and modifying it, or finding a collaborator.

Matrix theme is the only one i know of but i'm sure there are others.

I have the SDK installed so i'm not that familiar with how to handle packaging in the absence thereof. In SDK i'd just apt-get source matrix, modify as needed, dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot the new package, and upload to the autobuilder...