How to list/download the recursive BUILD dependencies of a debian package? - package

I've recently learned that one can use apt to download sources and easily amend, re-build, and install the package locally from Cinnamon volume step and media keys.
# Download the sources
apt source cinnamon-settings-daemon
cd cinnamon-settings-daemon-4.4.0+tricia
# Then install the build dependencies
apt build-dep cinnamon-settings-daemon
#Then build from the modified sources
apt build
Install the modified deb file (again note the version string may differ for different Cinnamon versions)
apt deb ~/cinnamon-settings-daemon_4.4.0+tricia_amd64.deb
I now also want to be able to just download all packages needed for apt build-dep as for binary package install How to list/download the recursive dependencies of a debian package?. However, when I've tried to use --download-only and then install debs files, it resulted in several other files needed:
The following additional packages will be installed:
libarchive-cpio-perl libcupsfilters-dev libicu66:i386 libltdl-dev
libmail-sendmail-perl libpng-tools libpulse0:i386 libsys-hostname-long-perl
Even $ apt-cache depends --recurse --no-recommends --no-suggests --no-conflicts --no-breaks --no-replaces --no-enhances cinnamon-settings-daemon | grep "^\w" | sort -u does not list e.g. libarchive-cpio-perl and also --download-only when I tried to substitute empty dmkg status file ($(apt-config shell STATUS Dir::State::status)) and downloaded ~500 files, not ~100, that "additional" file(s) is(are) still missing.
Added 1:
I added --no-install-recommends to apt install debs and now only two i386 remained in additional not downloaded:
The following additional packages will be installed:
libicu66:i386 libpulse0:i386
Any idea what is so special about them? These are the only i386 mentioned, 1st one listed in apt cache above. 2nd not listed, so combining two deb sets is not a way to solve.

I downloaded debs with dpkg status file corresponding to a system with less packages installed than one where I tried to install later. I assumed it ensures all required are downloaded. However, as I received an answer after facing same issue with regular (not build, sources) packages, it is not so: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/684975/446998. Additionally installed packages included some i386 architecture packages with corresponding amd64 packages among downloaded debs, so i386 required upgrade too when amd64 were installed as needed to be kept in sync.

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Error when trying to do (sudo apt install flex bison): The operation couldn’t be completed. Unable to locate a Java Runtime that supports apt [duplicate]

I was watching this, and, as you can see, the first command I am told to put in is:
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
When I do this, it outputs:
sudo: apt-get: command not found
I have no idea why this is the case.
How can I resolve this so I am following the tutorial correctly?
Mac OS X doesn't have apt-get. There is a package manager called Homebrew that is used instead.
This command would be:
brew install python
Use Homebrew to install packages that you would otherwise use apt-get for.
The page I linked to has an up-to-date way of installing homebrew, but at present, you can install Homebrew as follows:
Type the following in your Mac OS X terminal:
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
After that, usage of Homebrew is brew install <package>.
One of the prerequisites for Homebrew are the XCode command line tools.
Install XCode from the App Store.
Follow the directions in this Stack Overflow answer to install the XCode Command Line Tools.
Background
A package manager (like apt-get or brew) just gives your system an easy and automated way to install packages or libraries. Different systems use different programs. apt and its derivatives are used on Debian based linux systems. Red Hat-ish Linux systems use rpm (or at least they did many, many, years ago). yum is also a package manager for RedHat based systems.
Alpine based systems use apk.
Warning
As of 25 April 2016, homebrew opts the user in to sending analytics by default. This can be opted out of in two ways:
Setting an environment variable:
Open your favorite environment variable editor.
Set the following: HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1 in whereever you keep your environment variables (typically something like ~/.bash_profile)
Close the file, and either restart the terminal or source ~/.bash_profile.
Running the following command:
brew analytics off
the analytics status can then be checked with the command:
brew analytics
As Homebrew is my favorite for macOS although it is possible to have apt-get on macOS using Fink.
MacPorts is another package manager for OS X:.
Installation instructions are at The MacPorts Project -- Download & Installation after which one issues sudo port install pythonXX, where XX is 27 or 35.
Conda can also be used as package manager. It can be installed from Anaconda.
Alternatively, a free minimal installer is Miniconda.
apt-get command is only available on Debian or Debian-based Linux distributions (such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Kali). It is not accessible on macOS. Alternatively, you can use package managers like Homebrew, MacPorts, and Nix. You can find equivalent commands for each as follows
brew install package_name
sudo port install package_name
nix-env -i package_name
Before installing above package managers, you need to install XCode first. Follow the operation instructions from this guide How to Fix "sudo apt-get command not found" Error on Mac Terminal.
Alternatively You can use the brew or curl command for installing things, wherever apt-get is mentioned with a URL...
For example,
curl -O http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.8.1.0/magento-1.8.1.0.tar.gz

Could not perform backup protocol version exchange, error code -1

I need to backup iphone with libimobiledevice, using ubuntu, the device is detected but going to launch the backup commands the following error is displayed:
Started "com.apple.mobilebackup2" service on port 49343.
Could not perform backup protocol version exchange, error code -1
What could it depend on?
Several Github issues have reported this problem, like this one.
Solution:
you need to use latest version of idevicebackup and libimobiledevice
Indeed, if you use Ubuntu 20.04 (for instance), the libimobiledevice package is outdated, as of now.
If that's your case, you'll have to either wait for the next Ubuntu release (22.04) or compile it from source, what may become necessary at some point after the release of Ubuntu 22.04 anyway.
Disclaimer: downside of compiling yourself is that your binaries are not managed by the package manager. You'll have to update yourself, git pulling or downloading the newest source code releases and re-compiling everything everytime. You might have to redo all of this after a distribution upgrade. Upside is that your binaries do work...
Note: compilation steps are described on the official site only for debian; I could perform them equally well on a Linux Mint 20.3 (based on Ubuntu, based on debian). OP does not mention the OS he or she uses, but debian based seem to be the only ones available for now, so what follows should work on debian based OSes.
Compilation from source, step by step:
uninstall the official package and its dependencies and:
install the build dependencies: sudo apt install build-essential checkinstall git autoconf automake libtool-bin libplist-dev libusbmuxd-dev libssl-dev usbmuxd (see "from source" here)
get libimobiledevice source code from its repo, using for instance git clone https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice.git. You might get to the releases page and use the latest tar.gz instead (1.3 at the moment).
also get source code of other libraries required by libimobiledevice: libplist, libimobiledevice-glue and libusbmuxd. (I also compiled usbmuxd instead of using the official package, but I am not sure it is necessary). For each one of them, you can git clone it or download and untar the latest source code release, if available.
choose a prefix directory, where libraries and binaries will go. Create it if necessary (official libimobiledevice site suggests /opt/local and I will use this too in the next steps; in order for the compilation to work, you'll have to sudo mkdir /opt/local and export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig before starting the first compilation)
to compile and install, cd to the root of each git-cloned (or source-downloaded) directory (in this order: lipblist, libimobiledevice-glue, libusbmuxd and libimobiledevice, because each one depends on the previous one) and execute, in each one of them: ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/local, then make and finally sudo make install. (Note, the autogen line for libimobiledevice may be ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/local --enable-debug, as suggested here).
Having done all of this, the iphone was not mounted automatically, I had to manually run idevicepair pair and then could mount it using ifuse ./iphone_mount_point/ (do sudo apt install ifuse if necessary) and perform a backup using idevicebackup2 backup --full iphone_backup/. Read the help of idevicebackup2 for more information.

cabal-install "Couldn't read cabal file ..."

I just made a fresh haskell-platform install on a Linux Mint 12, via apt-get. Everytime I try to install some hackage package with cabal-install, I get a:
couldn't read caba file xxxx.cabal
where xxxx is a dependency of the package I'm installing or the package itself. Based on this thread on haskell cafe and other questions here in SO, I deleted the bytestring package from the index:
tar -f ~/.cabal/packages/hackage.haskell.org/00-index.tar --delete bytestring/0.9.2.0
tar -f ~/.cabal/packages/hackage.haskell.org/00-index.tar --delete bytestring/0.9.2.1
but the errors are still there.
My cabal-install version is:
$ cabal --version
cabal-install version 0.10.2
using version 1.10.1.0 of the Cabal library
The error is like this:
$ cabal install yesod
Resolving dependencies...
cabal: Couldn't read cabal file "fsnotify/0.0.5/fsnotify.cabal"
Does anyone knows what might be happening?
I'm having the same problem. There's a relevant mailing list thread about this problem at http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Cabal-install-fails-due-to-recent-HUnit-td5715081i20.html
I believe the upshot is that the format of the packages files has changed, and the cabal version in use here (I have the same version, obtained from ubuntu oneiric) can't understand the files. You can't even do "cabal install cabal-install".
The mailing list thread just peters out in september 2012 without a clear decision being made, but I think they decided to just ignore the problem. There's not a clear statement of what to do for users like us; I think the only approach possible is to install haskell from scratch, but I don't yet know where to start with that.
EDIT: I fixed this by downloading the latest source package of cabal from http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/cabal-install/1.16.0.2/cabal-install-1.16.0.2.tar.gz, unpacking it and following the instructions in its README to do a local install.
I was having the same problem and I wasn't able to follow Richard's instructions, so I realized I was running version 7.0.?, I uninstalled it using the command $ uninstall-hs, then installed the newest version (7.6.3). Problem solved here.

Debian APT - some questions

How can I check which packages are currently installed?
How can I find all packages that are not installed?
Is possible to uninstall package and all files of that package (config, temporaries, etc.)?
I'm using Debian Squeeze 6.0.7.
dpkg -l
well there will be A LOT of NOT installed packages.. why would you want to do that? btw, the command apt-cache pkgnames will provide you the list of ALL available packages in the repository added in your sources.list configuration
apt-get remove will remove the installed package, but you'll normally keep the configurations, which is the desired behaviour usually.
further info: http://www.cyberciti.biz/howto/question/linux/dpkg-cheat-sheet.php

sql.h header file missing though unixODBC is installed

I am on an up-to-date Ubuntu 12.04 system. I have unixodbc (v2.2.14 from ubuntu repos), MySQL and its relevant drivers installed. Also connected to a valid DSN. Verified by issuing isql DBName UName passwd.
I am trying to compile a C application that interacts with the database using ODBC. Almost everywhere I searched seemed to indicate that I should have "sql.h" installed somewhere. A find / -iname sql.h -print showed I don't have it.
So my question is: where is it? Did something go wrong with the install (no errors were reported though)? And what steps do you recommend? Reinstallation? Compilation from source code (the latest version?)?
You need to install the unixodbc-dev package to get the development header files.
sudo apt-get install unixodbc-dev
The -dev packages contain the require header files required to compile and build programs using these headers to make calls to the library. The library files themselves would be part of the regular package i.e. unixodbc in your case.
If you want to know which package provides a certain file, you could use apt-file:
sudo apt-file update
sudo apt-file find sql.h

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